Search continues for an AirAsia flight QZ8501 that went missing over Java Sea on Sunday, with rescuers saying the Airbus, carrying 162 people, might have crashed and could at the bottom of the sea. The plane took off from Surabaya in Indonesia and was en-route Singapore when it disappeared from the radar at early in the morning. Here are the live updates of search operation: 1:28pm: BODIES FOUND NEAR SITE WHERE AIRASIA PLANE DISAPPEARED Indonesian officials coming off a helicopter on Borneo island said they have recovered several bodies floating in waters near where the missing AirAsia flight was last seen. Images on local television showed at least one bloated corpse. The bodies, swollen but intact, were brought to an Indonesian navy ship, National Search and Rescue Director SB Supriyadi told reporters in the nearest town, Pangkalan Bun. The corpses did not have life jackets on.- (Associated Press) 1:18 pm: INDONESIA CONFIRMS MISSING AIRASIA FLIGHT CRASH 1:12 pm: 95 PER CENT SURE DEBRIS OFF KALIMANTAN COAST IS FROM MISSING AIRASIA JET: INDONESIAN SEARCH AND RESCUE AGENCY CHIEF Indonesias search and rescue agency chief said he was 95 per cent certain debris sighted off Indonesias Kalimantan coast was part of the AirAsia jet presumed to have crashed two days ago. I am 95 per cent sure that the location pictured is debris suspected to be from the aircraft, Indonesia Search and Rescue Agency chief Soelistyo told reporters.-(Reuters) Confirmed that it is debris from an aircraft bearing re white colors,” Indonesian Civil Aviation Head. #QZ85 8:26 AM - 30 Dec 2014 Yahoo Singapore @YahooSG 213 RETWEETS 37 FAVORITES 12:43 pm: SUSPECTED BODY, LIFE VEST, LUGGAGE SPOTTED BY AIR FORCE OFFICIAL: INDONESIAN MEDIA REPORTS - Objects resembling a body, luggage, a life vest and debris suspected to be part of an AirAsia jet that disappeared over the Java Sea were spotted by a pilot involved in the search operation, domestic media reported on Tuesday. The body seemed bloated, said First Lieutenant Tri Wibowo who was on board a Hercules aircraft during the search operation, reported the Kompas website.- (Reuters) 11:59 am: RED AND WHITE DEBRIS SIGHTED OFF KALIMANTAN IS PROBABLY FROM AIRASIA JET, SAYS OFFICIAL Red and white debris sighted off Indonesias Kalimantan coast is likely to be part the AirAsia jet presumed to have crashed in shallow waters off the Indonesian coast, a transportation ministry official said on Tuesday. The debris is red and white, Djoko Murjatmodjo, acting director general of air transportation at the transportation ministry, told reporters. We are checking if its debris from the aircraft. Its probably from the body of the aircraft. Based on the size and colouring of the debris, it was likely to be part of the missing jet, Murjatmodjo added.-(Reuters) 11:46am: SEARCH TEAMS SPOT DEBRIS INCLUDING PLANE DOOR AND EMERGENCY SLIDE- (DAILYMAIL.CO.UK ) 11:19 am: INDONESIAN TV SHOWS FOOTAGE OF OBJECTS IN WATER, POSSIBLY PART OF MISSING AIRASIA JET Indonesian television showed footage of objects floating in the Java Sea on Tuesday which an official said could be part of the AirAsia jet presumed to have crashed in shallow waters off the Indonesian coast. Indonesian TV showed two relatively large objects, one orange and one grey or brown, floating on the surface. The largest appeared to be several metres in length. Hopefully we will find something definite because I havent received anything else, an Air Force official told MetroTV referring to the reported debris. Other aircraft are still carrying out searches.-(Reuters) 11:00 am: SMOKE SPOTTED BY SEARCH HELICOPTERS Search helicopters looking for missing AirAsia flight 8501 have reportedly sighted smoke coming from an island off Indonesia. Two search jets have been dispatched to Long Island, part of the Indonesian archipelago, to investigate as they continue the hunt for the aircraft which disappeared on Sunday with 162 people on board, CNN reports. While the smoke sighting could be one of many things, Dr Max Ruland, Director of Operations for the search and rescue mission, confirmed to CBS News that two Cessna jets have been dispatched.- (DAILYMAIL.CO.UK) 8:17 am: AIRASIA FLIGHT PLAN DANGEROUS, SAYS AVIATION EXPERT An Australian aviation expert said that human error undoubtedly led to the disappearance of AirAsia flight QZ8501 after the pilots flew directly into a well-known danger zone above the Java Sea. Expert Neil Hansford said that either the Indonesian captain or the French first officer plotted a dangerous flight plan. He said veteran pilots avoided the area where the plane is believed to have gone down and would not fly through it. They call it the thunderstorm factory, Hansford told the Nine Network, Xinhua reported. You plan to go around it. You dont plan to go through it. He said whoever plotted the flight plan made a fatal error. He concluded by emphatically saying it was pilot error.- (IANS) 8:11 am: INDONESIA ASKS FOR US HELP The State Department said that Indonesia has asked the United States for help in locating a missing AirAsia jet. The Navys 7th Fleet said it is sending the USS Sampson, a destroyer. The Pentagon said it could include detection equipment deployed by air, surface and sub-surface. The US Embassy in Jakarta received a diplomatic note from Indonesian officials on Monday asking for assistance finding the plane.- (Associate Press) The Pentagons press secretary, Rear Adm. John Kirby, said in a brief statement that while details are being coordinated, the assistance could include air, surface and sub-surface detection capabilities. We stand ready to assist in any way possible, Kirby said.-(Associated Press) 8:02 am: SEARCH AREA EXPANDED IN HUNT FOR MISSING AIRASIA PLANE More planes will be in the air and more ships on the sea on Tuesday hunting for AirAsia Flight 8501 in a widening search off Indonesia that has dragged into a third day without any solid leads. At least 30 ships, 15 aircraft and seven helicopters were looking for the jet carrying 162 people, said Indonesias Search and Rescue Agency chief Henry Bambang Soelistyo. Most of the craft were Indonesian but Singapore, Malaysia and Australia contributed to the effort. Aircraft from Thailand also planned to join Tuesdays search. He said the search area would be expanded to land areas, with four military helicopters dispatched just after sunrise near Pangkalan Bun on the western part of Borneo island and to smaller islands of Bangka and Belitung. Until now, we have not yet found any signal or indication of the planes whereabouts, Soelistyo said, adding fishermen from Belitung island were also helping.-(Associated Press) 5.10 pm: OBJECTS IN SEA MAY NOT BE OF MISSING JET It is too early to know whether possible debris spotted in sea are linked to the missing jet, Indonesias Vice-President Jusuf Kalla told a press conference, according to the BBC. Its not clear whether objects spotted in the sea are that of QZ8501, he also told CNN. Menemui keluarga penumpang pesawat Air A QZ8501 di Crisis Center Bandara Juanda Surabaya 11:20 AM - 29 Dec 2014 Jusuf Kalla @Pak_JK 84 RETWEETS 50 FAVORIT 3:18 PM: UNCLEAR WHETHER OIL, OBJECTS FOUND IN SEA LINKED TO LOST JET An Indonesian helicopter searching for the missing AirAsia jetliner saw two oily spots in the water on Monday, and an Australian search plane spotted objects elsewhere in the Java Sea, but it was too early to know whether either was connected to the aircraft and its 162 passengers and crew. In any case, officials saw little reason to believe AirAsia Flight 8501 met anything but a grim fate after it disappeared from radar on Sunday morning. Based on the coordinates that we know, the evaluation would be that any estimated crash position is in the sea, and that the hypothesis is the plane is at the bottom of the sea, Indonesia search and rescue chief Henry Bambang Soelistyo said. Jakartas Air Force base commander Rear Marshal Dwi Putranto said an Australian Orion aircraft had detected suspicious objects near Nangka island about 100 miles off central Kalimantan. Thats about 700 miles from the location where the plane lost contact, but within Mondays greatly expanded search area. However, we cannot be sure whether it is part of the missing AirAsia plane, Putranto said. We are now moving in that direction, which is in cloudy conditions. Air Force spokesman Rear Marshal Hadi Tjahnanto told MetroTV that an Indonesian helicopter spotted two oily spots in the Java Sea east of Belitung island, much closer to where the plane lost contact than the objects viewed from the Australian plane. He said oil samples would be collected and analyzed to see if they are connected to the missing plane.-(Associated Press)
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