AirAsia Hunt Finds Bodies in Seats as Winds Hamper Search

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Search teams looking for the crashed AirAsia Bhd. jetliner found bodies still strapped in their seats and debris resembling parts of the tail, as they deployed sonar and pinger locators to seek the plane’s data recorders.

The Indonesian navy picked up the bodies wearing seat belts and found the debris by sonar, said Colonel Yayan Sofyan in an interview on Metro TV today. The tail is the location for the flight-data recorder, which together with the cockpit-voice recorder is known as the black box.