Indonesia search team fails to raise AirAsia plane fuselage
Indonesia’s salvage teams have failed to raise the fuselage of AirAsia flight QZ8501, which crashed into the Java Sea last month killing all the 162 people on board.
A senior official at state rescue agency, Basarnas, said on Saturday that the initial attempt was unsuccessful as ropes around the fuselage snapped.
“We were not successful today. The sling snapped off so the main body fell back to the sea floor,” media outlets quoted S.B. Supriyadi as saying.
The official added that several bodies fell from the fuselage when the piece of wreckage sunk once again.
Sources say the divers have recovered at least four more bodies from the wreckage of the crashed jet. The number amounts to a total of 69 bodies recovered so far.
Officials are hopeful that most of the remaining 93 corpses will be found entombed in the body of the plane.
The bid to raise the fuselage came a day after divers entered the main section of the fuselage for the first time on Friday. Sources say the operation to lift the main body will resume Sunday.
The plane’s cockpit voice recorder and flight data recorder were found last week.
A preliminary report on the crash is expected to be filed next week. However, experts say a full investigation will take months.
On December 28, 2014, the Indonesia AirAsia Airbus A320 disappeared en route to Singapore from Surabaya in Indonesia, with 155 passengers and seven crew members on board. The plane was later found to have crashed in the Java Sea under yet unknown circumstances.
The Indonesian Agency for Meteorology, Climatology and Geophysics has said bad weather was the key factor behind the crash, specifically pointing to icy conditions as the likely cause of engine failure.
JR/HSN/SS
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