Body Recovery Continues for AirAsia Flight 8501
12-31-1969
Recovery efforts and the search for the victims of the AirAsia Flight 8501 crash is still underway.
By early Friday at least 30 bodies had been recovered. An Indonesian Navy Official said five of the victims were still strapped in their seats.
Rescue teams say the focus of the search is on underwater detection to locate the plane's black boxes.
AirAsia Flight 8501 went down Sunday in the Java Sea, killing 162 people on board. The plane was headed from Indonesia to Singapore.