More bodies found in Airasia search

Indonesian divers have pulled six more bodies from the wreckage of the crashed AirAsia plane, bringing the total number of bodies retrieved to 90.

AirAsia Flight 8501 crashed into the Java Sea on December 28 with 162 people on board while flying from Surabaya, Indonesia’s second-largest city, to Singapore.

The National Search and Rescue Agency and traditional divers are continuing the search after the Indonesian navy halted its own efforts last week due to the difficulty of lifting the fuselage from the water.

Some of the bodies were found floating off Sulawesi island, about 620 miles east of the crash scene, one month after the crash.

Authorities believe many of the other bodies are still inside the fuselage and other large pieces of wreckage in the area, including the cockpit, which may contain the bodies of the pilot and co-pilot.

Authorities have reported the cockpit wreckage to be about 500 metres from the main body of the Airbus A320.

Suryadi Bambang Supriyadi, the operation chief of the rescue agency, said 13 bodies were found by traditional divers on Monday and Tuesday from inside and around the fuselage which is at a depth of 30 metres on the seabed.