[Susan]

agh ignore me, it's 5;o5am here so i'm not all with it

[Lion-hearted Girl]

Originally Posted by slyksleevemuckyey ↗

what happened to the photos that were originally posted? did they have to be remoevd?

All the threads are merged

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AirAsia QZ8501: Tail of crashed plane found

Part of the tail of crashed AirAsia flight QZ8501 has been found in the Java Sea, Indonesian searchers say.

The tail houses the "black boxes" - the voice and flight data recorders - which could give investigators clues as to the cause of the crash.

It was found in a secondary search area, lending weight to theories that strong currents have moved the debris.

The plane was lost en route from Surabaya, Indonesia, to Singapore on 28 December, with 162 people aboard.

No survivors have been found.

Buried in mud
Part of the tail of the Airbus A320-200 was spotted by teams involving divers and unmanned underwater vehicles, search and rescue chief Bambang Soelistyo said in Jakarta.

It is the first significant piece of wreckage from the crash to be identified and was found in an area some 30km (19 miles) from the initial search area.

The part found has the AirAsia mark on it, Mr Soelistyo said. It is buried in mud, in water 30m (98ft)deep, and is believed to be upside down.

Despite powerful sea currents and murky water, searchers managed to take photographs, he said. On one piece, the letter A appears to be painted.

Only 40 bodies have been recovered so far but the authorities believe many of the passengers may still be strapped inside the main body of the plane.

The BBC's Karishma Vaswani in Jakarta says the tail was not found in the area search teams previously focussed upon, but in the expanded search area. This could add weight to that theory, she adds.

A huge international operation with aerial searches and more than 30 ships involved has been repeatedly hampered by poor weather.

"The seas haven't been very friendly but the black boxes have a 30-day life and they will be able to find them," Peter Marosszeky, a senior aviation research fellow at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, told Reuters news agency.

"It's the weather that is causing the delay."

Some wreckage, including seats and a door, was found floating on the sea.

At the weekend search officials said sonar had detected what they thought were five large parts of the plane.

The cause of the crash is not known but the plane was flying through stormy weather at the time and had requested permission to change course.

Indonesian personnel carry seating from the crashed jet in Surabaya, 7 January

Investigators said they had found another body on Wednesday, bringing the total recovered to date to 40.

Most of the people aboard the plane were Indonesian: 137 adult passengers, 17 children and one infant, along with two pilots and five crew.

Anton Castilani, head of Indonesia's Disaster Victims Identification Unit, said identification would become more difficult because the bodies being found were increasingly decomposed.

"That makes it harder to do quick identification of the bodies," he said, quoted by the Straits Times. "We can still do DNA testing but that takes one to two weeks."

After two weeks, most corpses will sink, he was also quoted as saying by the Associated Press news agency.

AirAsia previously had an excellent safety record, with no fatal accidents involving its aircraft.

AirAsia chief executive Tony Fernandes said on Twitter: "We need to find all parts soon so we can find all our guests to ease the pain of our families. That still is our priority."
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-30706298

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Link to bodies does not work for me

[spudigitti]

This is the billionaire Tony Hernandez airline....
Some rescued bodies were completely naked.

[bose20]

BlackBox Found !

http://www.channelnewsasia.com/mobil...x/1583208.html

AirAsia QZ8501 black box found, say Indonesia authorities

SURABAYA: Indonesia's Directorate General of Marine Transport has confirmed that the black box of AirAsia QZ8501 has been found, Indonesian authorities said in a press release on Sunday (Jan 11). The breakthrough comes exactly two weeks after the flight from Surabaya to Singapore went down with 162 people on board.

In the release, coordinator of the Directorate General of Marine Transport Tonny Budiono said navy divers from Indonesia navy ship KN Jadayat found the black box at a depth of 30 to 32 meters.

The black box is currently wedged between pieces of wreckage making it difficult for divers to retrieve, and due to time constraints, retrieval will take place on Monday morning, said Mr Budiono.
The search crew will attempt to retrieve the black box by moving parts of wreckage to loosen it from where it is currently stuck, and if that fails, the same balloon method used to lift the tail of the plane will be employed.

To facilitate recovery efforts, a marker buoy has been installed at the site where the black box is, added Mr Budiono.Â*

- CNA/av

[liloreokid]

Unsure if these have been posted already.

[Hunted]

Wreckage photos from yesterday....

[Sharon]

More images of the victims

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