Missing AirAsia flight: Body found, relatives distraught with grief


Family members of passengers on board the missing Indonesia AirAsia flight QZ8501 react after watching news reports showing an unidentified body floating in the Java sea. - AFP

JAKARTA: Relatives of the 162 people missing on the plane hugged each other and burst into tears in Surabaya, where the missing Indonesia AirAsia flight QZ8501 plane departed from, as they watched footage showing a body floating in the sea on a television feed of a press conference in Jakarta.

A body was found in the sea Tuesday during the search for missing Indonesia AirAsia flight QZ8501, Indonesia's National Search and Rescue Agency (Basarnas) chief F.H. Bambang Soelistyo said.

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