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.
