Singapore navy finds AirAsia’s fuselage
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A Singaporean navy ship has found the crashed AirAsia plane’s fuselage, a 30-meter-long section with a wing attached, in the Java Sea, authorities said yesterday.
Images taken by a remote-controlled vehicle from the ship showed parts of the plane’s wing and words on the fuselage, Singapore Defense Minister Ng Eng Hen said on his Facebook page. He said Indonesian search officials have been notified so they can begin recovery operations.
The fuselage section that was found is 30 meters long and 10 meters wide with a height of 3 meters, Indonesia’s National Search and Rescue Agency chief Henry Bambang Soelistyo said.
“The fuselage with a wing still attached on it was found in the priority search area and has been confirmed as part of AirAsia plane,” Soelistyo said.
He added it was some 3 kilometers from the tail, which was found earlier, and 800 meters from the black boxes, at a depth of about 28 meters.
The plane carrying 162 people disappeared from radar on December 28 less than halfway into a two-hour flight from Surabaya, Indonesia, to Singapore. Many of the victims are believed to be entombed in the main section of the aircraft’s cabin.
Also yesterday, fishermen found two bodies along with plane seats and debris off the coast off South Kalimantan, bringing to 50 the total of bodies recovered so far.
The plane’s “black boxes” — the flight data recorder and cockpit flight recorder — were retrieved on Monday and Tuesday and will be key to learning what caused the plane to crash.
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