June 15, 2026 12:53 am (IST)
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AirAsia: Over 40 bodies, debris recovered from sea
Surabaya, Dec 30 (IBNS): More than 40 bodies and debris have been recovered on Tuesday from the Java Sea as search operation continued for the missing AirAsia Indonesia flight QZ8501 that went missing with 162 people on board on Sunday morning, reports said.
With the recovery of the debris of the missing airbus, all indications now suggest that it crashed in the Java Sea southwest of the island of Borneo.
Indonesian Navy confirmed that they retrieved 40 bodies and more bodies continue to be recovered.
Indonesian officials have confirmed that bodies and debris found in the Java Sea off Borneo are from AirAsia flight QZ8501 that went missing on Sunday, BBC quoted a statement by AirAsia.
AirAsia CEO Tony Fernandes regretted the loss and assured of all required actions.
"My heart is filled with sadness for all the families involved in QZ 8501. On behalf of AirAsia my condolences. I am rushing to Surabaya. Whatever we can do at Airasia we will be doing," he tweeted earlier.
The bodies were recovered on the third day of the search operation that commenced on Sunday after the AirAsia Indonesia flight QZ8501 went missing with 162 people on board.
The Airbus A320-200 disappeared on Sunday en-route from Surabaya in Indonesia’s east Java to Singapore.
The aircraft was an Airbus A320-200 with the registration number PK-AXC.
Nationalities of the passengers in the flight were 1 Singapore,1 Malaysia ,3 South Korea,1 United Kingdom, 149 Indonesia.
The crew of the plane comprised of 1 French and 6 Indonesian persons.
The aircraft had undergone its last scheduled maintenance on 16 November 2014.
This comes even as the entire world is intrigued still by the missing Malaysian Airlines flight MH370 after it disappeared between Kuala Lumpur and Beijing in March with 239 passengers and crew members on board with no trace of its wreckage found yet.
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