AirAsia QZ8501: Search teams attempting to raise fuselage, four bodies found


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  • Saturday, 24 Jan 2015

Indonesian rescue personnel unloading a coffin bearing a body recovered from the underwater wreckage of AirAsia flight QZ8501 from a military plane on arrival at Surabaya on Jan 23, 2015. Salvage teams on Jan 24 launched an operation to raise the plane's fuselage from the sea bed on Saturday. -- PHOTO: AFP.

JAKARTA: Indonesian salvage teams launched an operation to raise the fuselage of AirAsia flight QZ8501 from the seabed on Saturday, as they recovered four more bodies from the wreckage of the crashed jet.

The bid came a day after divers were able to enter the main section of the jet, which crashed in the Java Sea last month, for the first time.

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