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Divers discovered five more bodies belted to seats at the wreckage of the AirAsia Flight that crashed on December 28 2014.

Five bodies found belted to seats at AirAsia wreckage

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

AirAsia flight QZ8501’s black box has been examined.

No evidence of terrorist involvement in AirAsia crash

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.

AirAsia flight QZ8501’s black box has been examined.

Divers recover second AirAsia black box recorder

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

AirAsia flight QZ8501’s black box has been examined.

Divers recover AirAsia cockpit voice recorder

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

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

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

Search for AirAsia black box continues near tail site

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.

Family of passengers on board AirAsia flight QZ8501 react at a waiting area in Juanda International Airport

Divers make fresh attempt to recover AirAsia wreckage

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.

The body of an AirAsia QZ8501 passenger is carried to an ambulance from a Singapore Navy helicopter at the airbase in Pangkalan Bun

Indonesia expands search for bodies from AirAsia crash

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

The suspected AirAisa Flight QZ8501 wreckage is lying in water around 30 metres deep

Fifth piece of AirAsia wreckage believed to be found

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

Indonesian military personnel carry the coffin containing the remains of Khairunisa Binti Haidar Fauzi

Searchers find ‘big parts’ of crashed AirAsia plane

‘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.

Family of passengers on board AirAsia flight QZ8501 react at a waiting area in Juanda International Airport

Bad weather hampers recovery of bodies from AirAsia flight

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

Bodies found near site of AirAsia plane’s disappearance

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

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.

Q&A: What happened to AirAsia flight QZ8501?

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

Family of passengers on board AirAsia flight QZ8501 react at a waiting area in Juanda International Airport

AirAsia plane believed to be ‘at bottom of sea’

While teams searched for the AirAsia plane missing off Indonesia with 162 people on board, one official warned it was likely at the bottom of the sea.

Indonesia halts search for missing AirAsia plane

Indonesia’s search for the missing AirAsia plane with 162 passengers on board has been suspended due to nightfall and will resume at first light.

AirAsia plane missing with 162 passengers on board

An AirAsia plane with 162 people on board has gone missing en route from Indonesia to Singapore in the third crisis for a Malaysian carrier this year.