The tail part of the AirAsia flight QZ8501 has been lifted from the sea. TV footage showed a part of the tail being lifted on to a ship, two weeks ago after the plane went down in the Java Sea, killing all 162 people on board. It was not immediately clear if the cockpit voice and flight data recorders were still inside the tail or had detached when the Airbus A320 plummeted into the sea on 28 December. Their recovery is essential to finding out why it crashed.
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