AirAsia flight QZ8501: Bid to raise fuselage begins

Salvage teams have begun an operation to raise the fuselage of AirAsia flight QZ8501, which crashed into the Java Sea last month killing all 162 on board.

 However, the initial try was unsuccessful as ropes round the body snapped.

Another four bodies are recovered, transferral the whole to sixty nine, with a lot of thought to be within.

Indonesian officers believe the airliner A320-200 could have climbed too quick to undertake to avoid a storm and stalled.

The jet was flying from Surabaya in land to Singapore.

The plane's cockpit voice recorder and flight knowledge recorder were found last week.

A preliminary report on the crash is anticipated to be filed next week , though the complete investigation can take months.
 
'Tangled yarn'

Divers entered the most section of the body for the primary time on Fri.

Poor weather and troublesome ocean conditions have hampered the salvage operation since the most section of the craft was found.

 On Sabbatum, the salvage team tied a lifting bag to the part that was capable of raising up to ten tons.

However, seven metres (22ft) from the surface, sturdy currents and also the sharp edges of the emergency door of the craft cut the rope connecting the bag to the body.

Navy flag officer Widodo, World Health Organization is overseeing the operation from a close-by ship, told the BBC different had to pad the sharp edges with rubber material and take a look at once more. However, sturdy underwater currents have delayed the second try.

It is believed the plane's cockpit can also be within the same space.

On Friday, Indonesian rescue agency official SB Supriyadi represented the difficulties of the salvage: "The different same it had been dark within, the seats wherever floating regarding and also the wires were sort of a tangled yarn."

The head of Indonesia's transportation safety committee, Tatang Kurniadi, says a preliminary report on the crash is anticipated to be filed to the International Civil Aviation Organisation next week.

This week Transport Minister Ignasius Jonan told MPs that microwave radar knowledge had shown that the jet had climbed too quick - at a speed of vi,000ft (1,828m) a moment.

He said: "It isn't traditional to climb like that. it's extremely rare for industrial planes, that usually climb simply one,000 to 2,000 feet per minute. It will solely be done by a fighter jet."

This caused he plane to stall, he said. once planes stall, their engines don't cut out however the wings now not generate carry as a result of there's not enough air passing over them, BBC transport correspondent Richard Westcott says.

The jet took faraway from Surabaya at 05:35 time (22:35 universal time twenty seven December).

Shortly before it nonexistent, nearly halfway into the two-hour flight, its pilot contacted traffic management to request permission to climb to thirty eight,000ft from thirty two,000ft to avoid huge storm clouds - a standard prevalence within the space.

But significant traffic within the space meant he wasn't given permission to try to to thus instantaneously.

When traffic management tried to contact the plane once more, there was no answer. The plane disappeared from microwave radar screens shortly subsequently. It didn't issue a signal.