Photo credit: The Malay Mail Online. Republic of Singapore Air Force personnel survey the waters during a search and locate operation for the missing AirAsia QZ8501 plane at an undisclosed search area December 30, 2014.
The search for missing AirAsia Flight QZ8501 moves underwater. Divers and ships will be looking for the wreckage as well the black box of the AirAsia plane that went missing on Sunday. This is in light of yesterday’s news, that Indonesian rescuers have found floating bodies and debris from the plane, floating in the waters off the coast of Borneo.
AirAsia Flight QZ8501 lost contact with air traffic control early on Sunday during bad weather on a flight from the Indonesian city of Surabaya to Singapore. There were 162 people on board.
Chief Executive Officer of AirAsia Tony Fernandes told reporters that the crash is his “worst nightmare.” Fernandes also told reporters that he is taking responsibility for the crash and is not “running away.”
“I’m not running away from my obligations, even though we don’t know what’s wrong, passengers were on my aircraft and I have to take responsibility for that and I have tried to be as honest as I can, as open as I can as to what I know and many of them have given us suggestions and they continue.
Although the Indonesian navy initially said that 40 bodies had been recovered, other news source quoted the head of the search and rescue agency, Fransiskus Bambabg Soelistyo as saying that only three bodies had been retrieved.
According to the Malay Mail Online, The United States said that its missile-guided destroyer USS Sampson and combat ship USS Fort Worth were awaiting instructions from the Indonesian search command on the recovery operation. Singapore, on the other hand, will be sending its underwater beacon detectors to try to pick up pings from the black boxes.
Watch Tony Fernandes speak about AirAsia’s plane crash:
Story from: The Malay Mail Online and Reuters
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