AirAsia Fuselage Search Finds 4 'Large Objects, A 'Breakthrough' In Solving QZ 8501Crash Mystery
AirAsia Fuselage Search Finds 4 'Large Objects, A 'Breakthrough' In Solving QZ 8501Crash Mystery
New reports from Indonesia reveal that four more big objects have been retrieved from the Java Sea and they are believed to be big chunks of the airplane. The objects were found during a search for the main wreckage of the AirAsia QZ8501.
Bambang Soelistyo, Indonesia's search and rescue chief said, that the largest pieces were about 18m (59ft) long and Soelistyo believes that these objects are from the AirAsia A320 aircraft. Though as many as 30 bodies were recovered and are waiting to be identified, most of the bodies were still in the fuselage, said the rescue team.
The search team agreed across the board that the weather in Indonesia was the single-most impediment hampering the search for survivors.
BBC's Rupert Wingfield-Hayes said at the forward operating base in Pangkalan Bun says it seems this could be the breakthrough search teams have been hoping for. The black box is located near the fuselage. There have been no signals emitting from AirAsia's blackbox so far, and the search team has another 26 six days to go before the battery dies and information from the flight recorders cannot be received.
According to Solelistyo, one object was found on Friday, while the other three was found on Saturday: ""I am confident these are parts of the missing AirAsia plane."
A BBC report said, "An initial analysis by Indonesian weather agency BMKG has found that conditions at the time of the plane's disappearance suggest it probably flew into a storm."
The report continued "Professor Edvin Aldrian, , said there was evidence of extremely icy conditions at the plane's altitude, which can "stall the engines of the plane and freeze and damage the plane's machinery".
