Indonesian divers on Thursday
found five bodies still belted into their seats near the main section of
an AirAsia plane that crashed into the Java Sea last month with 162
people on board, and are hopeful of reaching the fuselage. A total of 58 bodies have now been found following the crash of flight
QZ8501 which went down on December 28 in stormy weather as it flew from
the Indonesian city of Surabaya to Singapore.
Our divers found five bodies
buried in mud, close to the plane fuselage.
They were still belted to
their seats," S.B. Supriyadi, a rescue agency official coordinating the
search. We believe they spilled out of the fuselage, which is 50 to 100 metres (160 to 330 feet) away," he said.
Three bodies have been retrieved and taken to the warship Banda Aceh, while the other two were still being recovered, he said.
