AirAsia hunt LIVE: Indonesia Navy says over 40 bodies pulled from sea

Mangalore Today News Network

Singapore, Dec 28, 2014: President Joko Widowo and AirAsia CEO Tony Fernandes are on their way to Surabaya as bodies continue to be pulled out from the sea. The airlines CEO expressed regret as it became clear that the plane had crashed in the sea.

 

Rescuers aboard Indonesian warship Bun Tomo have so far retrieved 40 bodies and more bodies continue to be recovered, said Navy spokesman.

Local media reports from Indonesia say that at least six bodies have been retrieved from the sea.

Officials say that most of the debris floating in the sea is of red and white colour - the colour of the missing AirAsia Flight 8501.

Watching the footage of bodies being spotted on TV, relatives of the ill-fated plane’s passengers broke into tears and hugged each other as if silently sharing the grief, said an AFP report.

"They hugged one another and continued crying until an AirAsia officer shouted - This is crazy," the report quoted a journalist saying.

The confirmation of AirAsia jet debris and victims’ bodies being spotted in the Java Sea might have come as a rude and shocking piece of news for the relatives of Flight QZ8501 passengers, dousing their hopes that the plane might not have crashed and that their kins might be alive. Earlier, the relatives of AirAsia Flight 8501 passengers told BBC in they were hoping the debris does not turn out to be the missing plane.

 

Courtesy: Zeenews