Search operations were continuing on Thursday off the island of Borneo to find the wreckage of AirAsia, which crashed last Sunday at sea with 162 people on board, mostly Indonesians.
The bad weather conditions complicate the work of rescuers who believe they have located a fuselage. A large dark mass was indeed identified about forty meters deep, but the signal from the boxes remains silent.
'The ship involved in the research is fitted with underwater locator beacons capable of detecting a black box, says the head of operations. It is also provided with a multi-beam sonar that detects the metal and provides underwater images in three dimensions. '
Families of the missing began arriving in the Indonesian city of Surabaya where the remains of victims are transported. Only seven bodies were recovered at this time. Most wore clothes, suggesting that the plane was not up in flight. Experts now believe that the device could have managed an emergency landing before sinking.
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