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12/30/14

Air Disaster: Six bodies recovered from AirAsia crash

As search teams locate and remove bodies from AirAsia Flight 8501, investigators are trying to determine what caused the jetliner to crash in shallow Indonesian waters with 162 people aboard.

The jet vanished from radar in bad weather Sunday morning. After more than two days of searching, the Indonesian National Search and Rescue Agency confirmed Tuesday that debris and bodies from the aircraft was found in the Karimata Strait, off the coast of Borneo.

Six bodies, three male and three female, have been recovered from the Java Sea Indonesia's Search and Rescue chief Henry Bambang Soelistyo said, including a woman wearing a flight attendant's uniform.
Three bodies were retrieved Tuesday, while the others were found after the search resumed Wednesday morning.

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