AirAsia QZ8501: Forty bodies found in missing plane search

  30 December 2014    Read: 1394
AirAsia QZ8501: Forty bodies found in missing plane search
At least 40 bodies have been recovered from the Java Sea in the search for missing AirAsia Flight QZ8501, the Indonesian navy says, BBC reported.
The bodies were spotted along with debris floating in the Java Sea off the Indonesian part of Borneo, in one of the search zones for the plane.

The Airbus A320-200, carrying 155 people from Surabaya in Indonesia to Singapore, disappeared on Sunday.

“The objects had been found 160km south-west of Pangkalan Bun in Borneo`s Central Kalimantan province”, said Indonesian civil aviation official.

On board the plane were 137 adult passengers, 17 children and one infant, along with two pilots and five crew.

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