AirAsia QZ8501: No bodies recovered wearing life jacket, clarifies Indonesia search official

Basarnas personnel carrying a body from the crashed AirAsia QZ8501 plane at Iskandar Military Airport in Pangkalan Bun. - EPA

JAKARTA: None of the bodies found so far in the hunt for the downed Indonesia AirAsia flight QZ8501 were wearing life jackets, an official from Indonesia's search and rescue agency (Basarnas) said on Wednesday, contradicting earlier reports that one of the bodies had a life jacket on.

"There was a victim, a man, and a life jacket. They were found apart. He was not wearing a life jacket," Basarnas operations deputy, Major-General Tatang Zaenuddin, was quoted as saying by a report on Detik.com news website.