Indonesia search and rescue teams hunting for the wreck of an AirAsia passenger jet detected pings in their efforts to find the black box flight recorders on January 9, an official said, 12 days after the plane went missing with 162 people on board.
Indonesia AirAsia Flight QZ8501 vanished from radar screens on Dec. 28, less than half way into a two-hour flight from Indonesia’s second-biggest city of Surabaya to Singapore. There were no survivors.
Forty-eight bodies, including at least two still strapped to their seats, have been found in waters off Borneo, but strong winds and high waves have hampered efforts to reach larger pieces of suspected wreckage detected by sonar on the sea floor.
The Airbus A320-200 carries the cockpit voice and flight data recorders near the tail section. Officials had warned, however, that they could have become separated from the tail.
The tail was found on January 7, upturned on the sea bed about 30 km (20 miles) from the plane’s last known location at a depth of around 30 meters.
Indonesian search teams loaded lifting balloons on to helicopters on January 9 ahead of an operation to raise the tail.
(Source: REUTERS)
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