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AirAsia Tail Body Part Found - See Pictures

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Hopes are high on finding the black box of the ill-fated AirAsia plane as the divers release the wreckage pictures of the flight that disappeared with December 28, with 162 passengers on board.

One image shows an “A” turned upside down out of the name, AirAsia.
“Today we successfully discovered the part of the plane that became the main aim since yesterday,” the National Search and Rescue Agency chief, Henry Bambang Soelistyo, told reporters. “I can ensure that this is part of the tail with theAirAsia mark on it.”

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The find is particularly important because the cockpit voice and flight data recorders, or black boxes, are located in the aircraft’s tail. Smaller pieces of the plane, such as seats and an emergency door, had previously been collected from the surface.

This handout image released by Indonesia's National Search And Rescue Agency (BASARNAS) on January 7, 2015 shows images believed to be of wreckage of ill-fated AirAsia flight QZ8501, photographed by divers working in the Java Sea.
Wreckage picture Flight QZ8501 

So far, 40 bodies have been found, including one on Wednesday, but time is running out, according to the Guardian.
The cause of the crash is yet to be known but experts attribute it to bad weather as it was reported that the pilot sought permission to climb higher to avoid a threatening cloud – a request which he was denied of due to heavy traffic at that height. When it was granted two minutes later, the plane had disappeared.

This is the third air tragedy that struck Asia in 2014 after the still-unaccounted whereabouts of Malaysian MH370 flight that disappeared and the MH17 shot down at the rebel-controlled territory of Ukraine.
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