Bad weather and poor underwater visibility have prevented Indonesian navy divers from searching inside the large chunk of AirAsia jet wreckage that is believed to be the fuselage.

A Singaporean navy ship has found the crashed AirAsia plane’s fuselage, a 30-metre long section with a wing attached, in the Java Sea, authorities said.

Divers have retrieved one of the black boxes from the AirAsia plane that crashed more than two weeks ago into the Java Sea, a major breakthrough in the slow-moving hunt.

Strong currents and blinding silt thwarted an attempt by divers to find AirAsia Flight 8501’s black boxes, which they hope are still located in the recently discovered tail of the plane.

Strong currents and blinding silt thwarted an attempt by divers to find AirAsia Flight 8501's black boxes, which they hope are still located in the recently discovered tail of the plane.

Priority is to recover more bodies from Java Sea amid fears that time is running out, writes Achmad Ibrahim.

Divers and an unmanned underwater vehicle have spotted the tail of the missing AirAsia plane in the Java Sea, the first confirmed sighting of any wreckage 11 days after Flight 8501 disappeared with 162 people on board.

Strong currents forced Indonesia to expand the search area for the crashed AirAsia plane today, as rough seas and bad weather moved debris and made it difficult to reach suspected chunks of the fuselage on the ocean floor.

Relatives of AirAsia crash victims sought strength in prayer today, a week after the disaster killed all 162 people on board, as rough weather again prevented searchers from reaching a large object on the seabed believed to be the plane’s fuselage.

Divers are grappling with rain and rolling waves as they try to reach what is believed to be the fuselage of AirAsia Flight 8501, resting on the ocean floor near four other large objects.

Indonesian officials have said that they were confident wreckage of AirAsia Flight 8501 had been located after sonar equipment detected four massive objects on the ocean floor.

Indonesia's search and rescue chief said today he was "confident" two large objects detected under the Java Sea were the wreckage of AirAsia Flight 8501.

After nearly a week of searching for the victims of AirAsia Flight 8501, rescue teams battling monsoon rains have more than tripled the number of bodies pulled from the Java Sea, some still strapped to their seats.

Search crews have recovered 30 bodies from the AirAsia plane crash, and an Indonesian navy official says five were found still strapped in their seats.

The investigation into the AirAsia crash has turned to the sea floor, with more sonar equipment and metal detectors deployed today to scour the seabed for wreckage, including the plane’s black boxes.

More ships loaded with sensitive equipment have arrived to search for the fuselage of AirAsia Flight 8501 and more than 150 people still missing, five days after the aircraft crashed into the sea.

A massive hunt for the 162 victims of AirAsia Flight 8501 resumed in the Java Sea, with six bodies, including a flight attendant identified by her trademark red uniform, recovered.

Several bodies have been found floating in the sea near where a missing AirAsia flight was last seen, Indonesian officials have said.

Several pieces of debris seen floating in the sea off Borneo island might be linked to the missing AirAsia jetliner, an Indonesia National Search and Rescue spokesman.

There is “insufficient evidence” that objects spotted in the sea are from the missing AirAsia plane, Indonesia’s vice-president has said.

Objects have been spotted in the sea by a search plane hunting for a missing AirAsia jet, an Indonesian official has said.