Found more bodies QZ 8501, search involving boats of America Tuft, Singapore, Russia and Japan

Found more bodies QZ 8501, search involving boats of America Tuft, Singapore, Russia and Japan

National Search and Rescue Agency ensures the additional bodies of victims QZ 8501 AirAsia aircraft found in the waters of the Strait of Karimata on Sunday (04/01). The findings were very likely to increase given the joint search and rescue team to detect the presence of several bodies in the vicinity of the search.

Basarnas head, Bambang Soelistyo, said the newly discovered bodies are now in the Republic of Singapore Navy ship, RSS Persistent.

"The body will be evacuated to Pangkalan Bun if the weather improves," he said in a press conference in Jakarta, Sunday (04/01).

With the addition of a corpse, then the total number of bodies that have been discovered until the eighth day of the search operation was 31 bodies.

However, that number is very likely to grow because of several ships see where a number of bodies floating in the search location. It was said Chief Operating Basarnas in Pangkalan Bun, First Marshal Supriyadi.

"Some ships have reported seeing the bodies. However, so far not been successfully hauled aboard. The amount can not be ascertained, "said Supriyadi the BBC Indonesia, Jerome Wirawan.

To anticipate the bodies and plane object that swept the sea, the location of the search will be widened to the east area of 20,700 square nautical miles.

At least 27 ships and 14 helicopters were deployed in the search operation, Sunday (04/01).

object plane

In addition to the bodies, rescue teams found the object plane that allegedly part of AirAsia QZ 8501.

Basarnas head, Bambang Soelistyo, said object measuring 9.8 meters x 1.1 meters x 0.4 meters was discovered at 3:00 pm, Sunday (04/01).

"Then there were five objects were found," he said.

Two objects were found on Saturday (03/01) dimension of 9.4 meters x 4.8 meters and 7.2 x 0.5 meters.

According to the Head of Operations Basarnas in Pangkalan Bun, First Marshal Supriyadi, distance search site with Kumai Port approximately 107 nautical miles.

In these locations, there are at least nine ships which includes two US Navy ships and vessels Indonesian Navy, and involved also ship from Singapore, Japan and Russia. Sign-Aaron Usman KRI also equipped detectors object search.

One of the Indonesian Navy ship KRI is Banda Aceh. In it, as reported by journalist Borneo News, Budi Baskoro, has been on alert as many as 47 members Frogs Forces Command.

They will be deployed to search for the fuselage AirAsia QZ 8501 as the weather improves.

Basarnas will also reduce the search robot submarine to search for the black boxes. (BBC)