Latest articles on Airasia

Five bodies found belted to seats at AirAsia wreckage

Article Staff Reporter - 22 Jan 2015

Five bodies found near AirAsia flight QZ8501's fuselage bring the total body count to 58 since the plane crashed last month.

No evidence of terrorist involvement in AirAsia crash

Article Staff Reporter - 19 Jan 2015

Recordings on the AirAsia flight QZ8501's black box don't show any evidence of terrorist involvement in the crash that killed 162 people last month.

Divers recover second AirAsia black box recorder

Article Staff Reporter - 13 Jan 2015

Experts now have essential tools to piece together what brought AirAsia Flight 8501 down.

Divers recover AirAsia cockpit voice recorder

Article Staff Reporter - 13 Jan 2015

A day after authorities recovered the first black box recorder of the crashed AirAsia plane, the second cockpit voice recorder has been found.

AirAsia black box recorder retrieved

Article Staff Reporter - 12 Jan 2015

One of two black box recorders from crashed AirAsia Flight QZ8501 has been found under the wreckage of a wing from the plane.

Tail of AirAsia lifted from seabed

Article Staff Reporter - 10 Jan 2015

Authorities have found the tail of crashed AirAsia Flight QZ8501 and brought it to the surface, but no black box recorders were retrieved.

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Search for AirAsia black box continues near tail site

Article Staff Reporter - 7 Jan 2015

Search and rescue divers have found the tail of the AirAsia plane that crashed last week and hope to find the jet's black box in the near vicinity.

Divers make fresh attempt to recover AirAsia wreckage

Article Staff Reporter - 6 Jan 2015

As weather conditions improved divers were sent to the bottom of the Java Sea to try and find more bodies from the wreckage of AirAsia Flight QZ 8501.

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Indonesia expands search for bodies from AirAsia crash

Article Adek Berry - 5 Jan 2015

Officials fear that bodies and wreckage from AirAsia Flight 8501 might have drifted in the past week due to bad weather.

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Fifth piece of AirAsia wreckage believed to be found

Article Sapa & Reuters - 4 Jan 2015

Amidst reports of bad weather, the fifth large underwater object believed to be part of plane AirAsia QZ8501 may have been found.

Searchers find ‘big parts’ of crashed AirAsia plane

Article Staff Reporter - 3 Jan 2015

'Big parts' of the ill-fated AirAsia Flight QZ8501 have been found in the Java Sea off the island of Borneo late on Friday night.

Bad weather hampers recovery of bodies from AirAsia flight

Article Staff Reporter - 31 Dec 2014

As relatives waited for news of their loved ones, helicopters struggled to recover bodies from the site where AirAsia Flight QZ8501 disappeared.

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Bodies found near site of AirAsia plane’s disappearance

Article Sapa Ap - 30 Dec 2014

Indonesian officials on Tuesday spotted six bodies from the AirAsia flight that disappeared two days earlier, and recovered three of them.

Debris from AirAsia plane found

Article Staff Reporter - 30 Dec 2014

Indonesia's director general of civil aviation says debris was spotted during an aerial search and it is believed to be from the AirAsia plane.

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Q&A: What happened to AirAsia flight QZ8501?

Article Staff Reporter - 29 Dec 2014

A day after it disappeared en route from east Java in Indonesia to Singapore, mystery surrounds the fate of AirAsia flight QZ8501.

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