Wall Street Journal?, Indonesia :
Searchers have recovered the fuselage of AirAsia Flight 8501, which crashed into the Java Sea late last year, an official said Saturday.
Tatang Zaenudin, deputy operations officer at Indonesia’s national search agency, told The Wall Street Journal that a crane lifted the badly damage jet fuselage from the sea floor Friday.
“The fuselage is now being shipped to Jakarta. Depending on the weather situation, the ship may arrive Sunday evening or Monday morning at the Tanjung Priok Port,” said Mr. Zaenudin, referring to the seaport in Jakarta.
The Airbus A320 crashed while flying to Singapore from East Java’s city of Surabaya on Dec. 28 last year, with 162 passengers and crew on board. Authorities haven’t announced the cause of the crash, but the plane climbed steeply before going into a stall and descent.
The fuselage was discovered more than a month ago, but bad weather hampered the efforts to recover it.
Mr. Zaenudin said conditions had improved in recent days, as Indonesia approaches the end of the wet season. He said searchers didn’t find any bodies in the process of recovering the fuselage and, as a result, the agency may decide to end the search for about 60 bodies that are yet to be found.
Searchers have recovered the fuselage of AirAsia Flight 8501, which crashed into the Java Sea late last year, an official said Saturday.
Tatang Zaenudin, deputy operations officer at Indonesia’s national search agency, told The Wall Street Journal that a crane lifted the badly damage jet fuselage from the sea floor Friday.
“The fuselage is now being shipped to Jakarta. Depending on the weather situation, the ship may arrive Sunday evening or Monday morning at the Tanjung Priok Port,” said Mr. Zaenudin, referring to the seaport in Jakarta.
The Airbus A320 crashed while flying to Singapore from East Java’s city of Surabaya on Dec. 28 last year, with 162 passengers and crew on board. Authorities haven’t announced the cause of the crash, but the plane climbed steeply before going into a stall and descent.
The fuselage was discovered more than a month ago, but bad weather hampered the efforts to recover it.
Mr. Zaenudin said conditions had improved in recent days, as Indonesia approaches the end of the wet season. He said searchers didn’t find any bodies in the process of recovering the fuselage and, as a result, the agency may decide to end the search for about 60 bodies that are yet to be found.
