Missing AirAsia flight: Items resembling emergency slide, plane door spotted


This aerial view taken from an Indonesian search and rescue aircraft over the Java Sea shows floating debris spotted in the same area as other items being investigated by Indonesian authorities as possible objects from missing Indonesia AirAsia Flight QZ8501 on Dec 30, 2014. - AFP

PANGKALUN BUN: Items resembling an emergency slide, plane door and other objects were spotted during an aerial search for missing Indonesia AirAsia Flight QZ8501, Indonesian officials said. 

“We spotted about 10 big objects and many more small white-coloured objects which we could not photograph,” Indonesian air force official Agus Dwi Putranto told a press conference on Tuesday.

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