An expert team of 15 Indonesian divers explored the main hull of theAirAsia jet that crashed last month, hoping to recover the bulk of thedisaster's victims, on January 15, a day after it was finally located bya navy ship.
The fuselage is attached to part of a wing, with the total wreckage measuring nearly 30 metres long.
National search and rescue chief Bambang Soelistyo said divers willtry to retrieve bodies from the wreckage while it is still on theseabed, with an additional 100 divers at the ready to assist in therecovery.
Head of the National Transportation SafetyCommittee Tatang Kurniadi said that 174 hours of data had beensuccessfully downloaded from the flight data recorder, and two hours andfour minutes from the cockpit voice recorder. The data must beconverted into a usable format before the lengthy analysis process canbegin.
AirAsia flight QZ8501 went down on December 28 instormy weather during a short trip from the Indonesian city of Surabayato Singapore, with 162 people on board.
Only 50 bodies have been recovered so far, 36 of which have been identified.-VNA
The fuselage is attached to part of a wing, with the total wreckage measuring nearly 30 metres long.
National search and rescue chief Bambang Soelistyo said divers willtry to retrieve bodies from the wreckage while it is still on theseabed, with an additional 100 divers at the ready to assist in therecovery.
Head of the National Transportation SafetyCommittee Tatang Kurniadi said that 174 hours of data had beensuccessfully downloaded from the flight data recorder, and two hours andfour minutes from the cockpit voice recorder. The data must beconverted into a usable format before the lengthy analysis process canbegin.
AirAsia flight QZ8501 went down on December 28 instormy weather during a short trip from the Indonesian city of Surabayato Singapore, with 162 people on board.
Only 50 bodies have been recovered so far, 36 of which have been identified.-VNA
