The National Transportation Safety Committee will submit its initial findings this week to the International Civil Aviation Organisation on AirAsia’s first fatal crash
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AirAsia chief executive, Tony Fernandes, welcomed the news.
“This is so important to all of us at AirAsia so we can return our guests to their loved ones,” Fernandes wrote on Twitter
Chief Investigator, Andreas Hananto, said that his team of 10 investigators at the National Transportation Safety Committee had found no threats in the cockpit voice recordings to indicate foul play during AirAsia Flight QZ8501
However, the plane’s cockpit voice recorder hasn’t been found yet
Moeldoko was onboard navy ship Banda Aceh used as a base ship to supervise the operation to lift up the tail, which he said, was submerged in the seabed mud
The AirAsia Airbus A320-200 vanished from radar screens on December 28 enroute from Indonesia’s second-largest city Surabaya to Singapore with 162 people on board
Indonesia AirAsia’s Flight QZ8501, an Airbus A320-200, lost contact with air traffic control early on Sunday during bad weather on a flight from the Indonesian city of Surabaya to Singapore
The plane disappeared on Sunday
Images on local television showed at least one bloated corpse
“Based on the coordinates given to us and evaluation that the estimated crash position is in the sea, the hypothesis is the plane is at the bottom of the sea,” Indonesia’s National Search and Rescue Agency chief Bambang Soelistyo said at a press conference
The Malaysia-based budget airline said in a statement that there were two pilots, four flight attendants and one engineer on board the Airbus A320-200 aircraft, with the registration number: PK-AXC
AirAsia said in a statement that the plane was an Airbus A320-200 and that search and rescue operations were in progress