Malaysian Navy finds emergency slide of flight QZ8501

An emergency slide of the AirAsia’s flight QZ8501 was found on December 31, 2014 by one of three ships of the Malaysian Navy taking part in the search and rescue campaign.
An emergency slide of the AirAsia’s flight QZ8501 was found on December 31, 2014 by one of three ships of the Malaysian Navy taking part in the search and rescue campaign.

Malaysia ’s navy commander, Admiral Abdul Aziz Jaafar posted two images on his Twitter account, showing Malaysian naval soldiers are holding the slide on the ship.

Malaysia mobilized three navy ships and three planes for the search and rescue campaign just one day after news of the disappearance of flight QZ8051.

As of December 31, seven bodies, three of which women, were recovered.

The Airbus A320-200 carrying 162 passengers and crew members crashed in Java Sea on December 28 on its way from Surabaya , Indonesia , to Singapore .

Most of passengers are Indonesian. Three are citizens of the Republic of Korea while Singapore , Malaysia and Britain each have one citizen on board.-VNA

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