Sonar detects wreckage of AirAsia flight 8501 upside down on bottom of the Java Sea

 

Indonesian search officials have now confirmed they have located the fuselage of AirAsia flight 8501 on sonar radar, upside down on the sea floor.

Officials from Basarnas on Tuesday Dec 30,2014, Indonesia's search and rescue agency, say the plane wreckage has been located in 24 to 30 metres of water.

Sonar detects wreckage of AirAsia flight 8501 upside down on bottom of the Java Sea, as a search pilot reveals victims were found holding hands amid wreckage of doomed jet

The chief of Indonesia's search and rescue agency, Bambang Sulistyo, said that two males had been recovered, along with one female who was wearing a flight attendant uniform. 

 

Since wreckage from the plane was discovered off the coast of Borneo Island, after three days of searching, there have been a number of different body counts from several official sources. It's now believed seven bodies have been recovered.

Divers and ships will now search the wreckage for the all-important black boxes of the doomed plane, after officials confirmed that the bodies and debris found are from flight 8501.

Aviation experts thought the fuselage would be easily found as the aircraft most likely only broke up when it hit the water.

The Airbus A320-200 was 42 minutes into its flight from Surabaya in Indonesia to Singapore on Sunday when it vanished with 162 people on board.