AirAsia QZ8501: Black box may be retrieved Thursday

This handout image released by Indonesia's National Search And Rescue Agency (BASARNAS) on Jan 7, 2015 shows images believed to be of wreckage of ill-fated AirAsia Flight QZ8501, photographed by divers working in the Java Sea. Indonesia said it had found the tail of AirAsia Flight QZ8501, potentially marking a major step towards locating the plane's black boxes and helping shed light on what caused it to crash into the sea 11 days ago. - AFP PHOTO / BASARNAS

JAKARTA: Indonesia hopes to retrieve the black box on Indonesia AirAsia Flight QZ8501 Thursday, after a brief lull in the bad weather allowed divers to positively identify the tail of the Airbus A320-200 plane where the voice and flight data recorders are housed.

The breakthrough on Wednesday - on the 11th day of a massive multinational search and recovery effort in the Java Sea - came as the Indonesian authorities suspended more AirAsia flights to Singapore, cutting three of the 21 weekly services from Bandung. The Surabaya-Singapore route was suspended late last week.