The Indonesian air force officials spotted items resembling an emergency slide, plane door and other objects during an aerial search for missing Indonesia AirAsia Flight QZ8501.
“We spotted about 10 big objects and many more small white-coloured objects which we could not photograph,” Indonesian air force official Agus Dwi Putranto told a press conference on Tuesday.
“The position is 10km (six miles) from the location the plane was last captured by radar,” he said.
He displayed 10 photos of objects resembling a plane door, emergency slide, and a square box-like object. “It is not really clear … it could be the wall of the plane or the door of the plane,” he said.
“Let’s pray that those objects are what we are really trying to find,” he said in Pangkalan Bun in Central Kalimantan on the island of Borneo.
UPDATES – 30 DECEMBER 2014 (4.47pm)
Several bodies floating in waters where the Indonesian AirAsia flight went missing have been retrieved, reported Indonesian Metro TV. This was confirmed by officials who got off a helicopter in Pangkalan Bun, Surabaya.
