More than 40 bodies have been recovered from the missing AirAsia flight in the Java Sea. The bodies and debris were spotted off the coast of Borneo early on Tuesday morning. The area is around 10 kilometres from where the passenger jet disappeared off radar screens on Sunday.
Families of those on board, who had gathered at a crisis centre in Surabaya, watched in distress as pictures showing floating bodies and objects including luggage and an emergency slide and plane door.were broadcast on Indonesian TV.
There were 162 people on board including 137 adult passengers, 18 children and two pilots and five crew. Most were Indonesian but the passengers included one UK national, a Malaysian, a Singaporean and three South Koreans.
AirAsia flight QZ-8501 vanished from radar screens early on Sunday morning, 40 minutes after take-off from Indonesia’s second largest city Surabaya, heading to Singapore.
The pilot had requested permission to fly higher to avoid bad weather. It was not immediately granted because of heavy air traffic and by the time it was given, communication with the plane was lost.
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