Ice Conditions Cited as AirAsia Hunt Finds Four More Bodies

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Teams recovered four more bodies as rough weather continued to hamper the hunt for recorders from the crashed AirAsia Bhd. jetliner that could show whether icing contributed to the accident.

The AirAsia plane that disappeared Dec. 28 appears to have flown into a storm cloud, with the jet’s engines possibly affected by ice formation, researchers from the Indonesia weather office wrote in a report, citing meteorological data from the flight’s last known location over the Java Sea.