Posted on 01/03/2015 12:07:47 AM PST by moose07
Search teams scouring the Java Sea for the wreckage of AirAsia flight QZ8501 have found "two large objects", Indonesian officials say.
Search and rescue agency chief Bambang Soelistyo said a remotely operated underwater vehicle was being lowered to take pictures.
However, bad weather and heavy seas continue to hamper operations.
The jet disappeared with 162 people on board while flying from Surabaya in Indonesia to Singapore last Sunday.
So far 30 bodies have been recovered in the search. No survivors have been found and the main sections of the Airbus A320 have not been retrieved.
Most bodies are thought to have been trapped in the plane's fuselage.
'Confident'
Mr Soelistyo said on Saturday that the large objects had been detected by sonar from an Indonesian navy ship.
"We found oil slicks and huge objects at 23:40 (16:40 GMT) last night. I am confident these are parts of the missing AirAsia plane that we are looking for," he said.
He said the larger of the objects was 10 metres by five (32ft by 16ft) but that strong currents made operating the underwater vehicle difficult.
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Sounds very much like they have pinpointed it. Now, where is the missing Malaysian aircraft?
Either in the hinterlands of Siberia or in some of the deepest ocean on earth as opposed to where the AirAsia flight went down - in some of the shallowest seas on the planet.
In that part of the world, it could easily be something other than the Air Asia plane.
Everything from WW2 Japanese aircraft to long-lost fishing boats.
War shipwrecks hinder hunt for jet
http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/news/world/asia/article4312562.ece?CMP=Spklr-127011278-Editorial-TWITTER-thetimes-20150103-World&linkId=11478251
I have trouble believing the news reports on this one. I guess it is just the backward nations involved, but they said they found 40 bodies then it was 3 bodies. Now some “expert” who no one has ever heard of said the pilot probably landed it on the water... We also hear 3 people were found holding hands...
The flight recorders should be pinging, it shouldn’t be that difficult in 150’ of water. If this happened in US waters the recovery would be underway by now.
Wouldn't that be a mindbender?
In a massive trench
In a massive trench
Up-date
The tail section has now been found and raised.
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