BEIJING, Jan. 12 (Xinhuanet) -- As the search work in the Java Sea for the AirAsia plane enters the 16th day, the tail of the AirAsia plane has been brought ashore and divers may have located the black box recorders.
"The search ship captured a signal, a signal that was given out by an object," Bambang Soelistyo from Indonesian Search & Rescue Agency We calculated the distance as about 1.9 nautical miles from the wreckage of the tail."
Search authorities said while divers were unable to retrieve the black boxes so far, there was evidence of ping signals.
A Transport Ministry statement says it believes the recorders were wedged under other plane debris at a depth of about 30 to 32 meters. Divers will try to shift the position of the wreckage to access the black boxes on Monday.
Meanwhile, bodies of 48 passengers have been recovered from the sea, with 32 of them have been identified. The plane went down in the Java Sea on December the 28 with 162 people on board.
(Source: CNTV.cn)
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