http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2015-01-02/airasia-hunt-resumes-as-black-box-pinger-locater-to-be-deployed.html
Search teams looking for the crashed AirAsia Bhd. jetliner found bodies still strapped in their seats and debris resembling parts of the tail, as they deployed sonar and pinger locators to seek the plane’s data recorders.
The Indonesian navy picked up the bodies wearing seat belts and found the debris by sonar, said Colonel Yayan Sofyan in an interview on Metro TV today. The tail is the location for the flight-data recorder, which together with the cockpit-voice recorder is known as the black box.
“Our team found what we suspect is a fraction of the aircraft tail,” Sofyan said. “It was at the bottom of the sea, at 29 meters deep.”
Heavy seas and wind exceeding 40 knots in the search area are delaying progress while three-meter high waves are preventing divers from going down. Bad weather is expected to persist through Jan. 4, Indonesia search and rescue agency chief F.H. Bambang Sulistyo said at a briefing last night in Jakarta. The international team set 1,575 square nautical miles as the most likely area to find the plane wreckage, Malaysia’s Navy Chief Abdul Aziz Jaafar said today in a Twitter post.
Divers, helicopters, planes and ships have scoured the Java Sea for the remains of Flight 8501 in a search that has so far helped recover 30 bodies. The black box of the Airbus Group NV jet has eluded recovery efforts near Pangkalan Bun, about 600 miles (1,000 kilometers) southeast of Singapore. Parts of the plane were identified after sonar contact at 24 meters (79 feet) under water, Hadi Tjahjanto, a spokesman for Indonesia’s Air Force, said earlier.
A spate of crashes in the past decade had prompted Indonesia in 2008 to amend laws and boost plane-safety checks after the European Union imposed a ban on its carriers from flying to Europe. The ban was partially lifted later. Indonesia had 3.77 fatal accidents for every 1 million takeoffs in the three years ended March 31, London-based aviation adviser Ascend said in 2007. The global rate was 0.25 then.
A spate of crashes in the past decade had prompted Indonesia in 2008 to amend laws and boost plane-safety checks after the European Union imposed a ban on its carriers from flying to Europe. The ban was partially lifted later. Indonesia had 3.77 fatal accidents for every 1 million takeoffs in the three years ended March 31, London-based aviation adviser Ascend said in 2007. The global rate was 0.25 then.
Members of Indonesian search and rescue team carry the body of a victim of the AirAsia flight QZ8501 crash at Iskandar Airbase in Pangkalan Bun, Central Kalimantan, Indonesia, on Jan. 01, 2015.
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