After 3 days of intense searching, Indonesian officials say
they think they've found debris from AirAsia Flight QZ8501 in the waters off
the island of Borneo. Objects spotted in the sea are "95% likely" to
be from the plane that went missing Sunday with 162 people on board, said
Bambang Sulistyo, the head of Indonesia's search and rescue agency, said
Tuesday.
A search team on a plane spotted the shadow of an object
that looked like a plane in the water. Further searching discovered floating
objects believed to be the bodies of passengers, and then what appeared to be
an emergency exit of the plane, Sulistyo told a news conference. The
announcement came as a heart-breaking blow to relatives of passengers who had
been waiting for news at the airport in the Indonesian city of Surabaya, where
Flight 8501 began its journey.
The plane was carrying 155 passengers and 7 crew members.
The overwhelming majority of those on board were Indonesians. There were also
citizens of Britain, France, Malaysia, Singapore and South Korea.
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Very sad situation here.
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