Section: Free Malaysia Today (Malaysia)
Indonesian search and rescue finds two large objects
JAKARTA: Recovery teams have found two big parts of AirAsia Flight 8501, which crashed into the sea last weekend with 162 people on board, Indonesia’s top search official said Saturday. The huge search operation came across the objects in the Java Sea off the island of Borneo late Friday night, raising hopes that the remaining bodies and...
Recovery teams narrow AirAsia search
PANGKALAN BUN: Indonesian recovery teams narrowed the search area for AirAsia Flight 8501 Friday, hopeful they were closing in on the plane’s crash site, with a total of 30 bodies and more debris recovered from the sea. French and Singaporean investigators joined the hunt for the Airbus A320-200, which disappeared from radar during a storm...
Searchers hopeful in AirAsia search
PANGKALAN BUN: Indonesian recovery teams narrowed the search area for AirAsia Flight 8501 Friday, hopeful they were closing in on the plane’s crash site, with a total of 16 bodies and more debris recovered from the sea. French and Singaporean investigators with equipment for detecting the signal from the plane’s black boxes were set...
Weather stalls search for black boxes; first victim buried
PANGKALAN BUN/SURABAYA: Heavy seas stopped divers reaching the possible wreck of an AirAsia Indonesia jet off Borneo on Thursday and an aviation official said it could be a week before the black box flight recorders are found. Nine bodies have so far been recovered from the Airbus A320-200, which crashed on Sunday en route to Singapore from the...
Search for missing black box could “take a week”
PANGKALAN BUN/SURABAYA: Divers waiting to inspect the possible wreck of an AirAsia Indonesia jet off Borneo were unable to resume operations because of heavy seas on Thursday and an aviation official said it could take a week to find the black box flight recorders. Crews were on standby to descend to a large object detected by sonar on the ocean...
Indonesia vows ‘all-out effort’ in search for AirAsia victims
PANGKALAN BUN: Indonesian searchers promised an “all-out effort” Thursday to locate bodies from AirAsia Flight QZ8501 as international investigators joined the hunt for the ill-fated plane. Seven bodies have so far been retrieved in the search for the Airbus A320-200, which crashed into the Java Sea with 162 people on board during a storm Sunday...
Bodies from crashed AirAsia plane arrive in Indonesian city
SURABAYA: The first two bodies from the AirAsia plane that crashed off the coast of Borneo arrived on Wednesday in the Indonesian city of Surabaya, where relatives have gathered to await news of their loved ones. Rescuers believe they have found the plane on the sea floor off Borneo, after sonar detected a large, dark object beneath waters near...
First AirAsia bodies arrive as bad weather hampers recovery
SURABAYA: Soldiers acting as pall bearers Wednesday carried coffins containing the first two bodies from AirAsia Flight QZ8501 into Surabaya airport, from where the ill-fated plane departed, as sombre relatives gave their DNA to help identify loved ones. The bodies were taken from an air force plane to a military ambulance to be transported to a...
Questions raised about plane’s last moments
SURABAYA: A body recovered on Wednesday from the crashed AirAsia plane was wearing a life jacket, an official with Indonesia’s search and rescue agency said, raising questions about how the disaster unfolded. Rescuers believe they have found the plane on the ocean floor off Borneo, after sonar detected a large, dark object beneath waters...
Indonesia believes it has found AirAsia plane on sea bed
SURABAYA: Indonesian rescuers believe they have found the wreck of a crashed AirAsia plane on the ocean floor off Borneo, after sonar detected a large, dark object beneath waters where debris and bodies were found floating. Ships and planes had been scouring the Java Sea for Flight QZ8501 since Sunday, when it lost contact during bad weather...
