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Indonesia resumes search for AirAsia #QZ8501 crash victims
Indonesian rescuers on Sunday resumed their search for 86 victims still missing from the AirAsia plane that crashed on December 28 with 162 people on board,...
AirAsia QZ8501 captain left seat before jet lost control
The captain of the AirAsia jet that crashed into the sea in December was out of his seat conducting an unorthodox procedure when his co-pilot apparently...
AirAsia captain left seat before jet lost control
The captain of the AirAsia jet that crashed into the sea in December was out of his seat conducting an unorthodox procedure when his co-pilot apparently...
French co-pilot flying AirAsia jet before crash: investigators
The French first officer of an AirAsia passenger jet that crashed into the sea last month was at the controls just prior to the accident, Indonesia’s...
Divers examine AirAsia jet fuselage, search for bodies
Indonesian navy divers plunged into the sea at dawn Thursday to examine a large chunk of the AirAsia jet’s fuselage, aiming to bring bodies believed...
Divers retrieve crashed AirAsia jet’s cockpit voice recorder
Divers retrieved the cockpit voice recorder from the wreck of an AirAsia passenger jet on Tuesday, MetroTV said quoting a transport official, a key piece...
Indonesian searchers believe crashed AirAsia’s fuselage found
Indonesian search teams believe a sonar scan has detected the fuselage of an AirAsia airliner that crashed two weeks ago with the loss of all 162 people...
After string of jet crashes, a struggle to re-train pilots
As investigators hunt for what caused an AirAsia jet to crash in an equatorial storm on Dec 28, the aviation industry is still struggling to apply the...
Pings: Signs of black boxes heard near where AirAsia jet crashed
Three Indonesian ships detected the signals from the two missing black boxes not far from where the plane’s tail section was recovered.
AirAsia plane tail lifted from sea as divers resume search
The tail of crashed AirAsia Flight QZ8501 has been lifted out of the Java Sea off Borneo, two weeks after the Airbus A320 crashed into the Java Sea, killing...
Pings detected in Java Sea in hunt for AirAsia #QZ8501 black boxes
Ping signals believed to be from the black box data recorders of crashed AirAsia Flight 8501 were detected Friday, a senior Indonesian search official...
AirAsia: Divers search tail section wreckage for flight recorders
Scores of divers plunged into the Java Sea on Thursday to search the wreckage of an AirAsia jet for the black box recorders that could reveal why the plane...
AirAsia jet tail found; search teams ‘desperately’ seek black boxes
Recovery teams have found the tail of the crashed AirAsia Flight 8501 in the Java Sea, the Indonesian search chief said Wednesday, nearly two weeks after...
Divers go down to AirAsia #QZ8501 wreckage as weather clears
Indonesian search officials sent divers down to the bed of the Java Sea during a break in bad weather Tuesday in hopes of recovering more bodies from the...
More AirAsia wreckage found, but weather frustrates divers
A multinational team searching for the wreckage of the crashed Airbus A320 found another large underwater object believed to be part of the plane, but...
'Two big parts' of AirAsia plane found, crash may have been caused by ice
Recovery teams have found two big parts of AirAsia Flight 8501, which crashed into the sea last weekend with 162 people on board, Indonesia’s top...
30 AirAsia crash victims recovered as seabed scoured for wreckage
The bodies of 30 AirAsia crash victims have now been recovered from the sea as rescuers continue to scour the seabed for wreckage.
Search for missing AirAsia black box recorders could ‘take a week’
Divers looking for the wreck of an AirAsia Indonesia jet off Borneo were unable to resume full-scale operations on Thursday in poor weather and heavy seas,...
AirAsia disaster: Victim with life jacket raises questions about last minutes
As rescue crews struggled with high winds and rough seas in their efforts to locate the passengers and crew aboard AirAsia Flight QZ8501, officials began...
Divers set to search for AirAsia wreckage after debris, bodies found
Divers and ships will search for the wreckage and the all important black boxes of a doomed AirAsia plane on Wednesday after Indonesian rescuers found...
AirAsia wreckage found, rescuers start retrieving bodies from water
Family members of those aboard AirAsia Flight 8501 collapsed in agony Tuesday as images of debris and a bloated body flashed across Indonesian television...
Access, denied: AirAsia flight was refused permission to increase altitude
Pilots of the AirAsia plane thought to have crashed in the Java Sea were refused permission to climb higher to avoid a storm, according to Indonesia’s...
Search suspended overnight for AirAsia flight with Briton on board
A British businessman and his two-year-old daughter are believed to be among those travelling on a flight that lost contact with air traffic controllers...
Missing: 162 feared dead as AirAsia 8501 disappeared in rough weather
With darkness falling, Indonesian authorities suspended the aerial search for the Airbus A320, but ships will continue to scour the area.
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