6 January 2015, 04:33 GMT
BALI, January 6 (Sputnik) — The search area for the wreckage of AirAsia flight QZ8501 is being expanded again as the rescue and search operation enters its tenth day, Lt. Col. Jhonson Simatupang of the Indonesian Air Force said Tuesday.
"If yesterday the area was 90 by 270 nautical miles in size, currently it has been widened to 287 nautical miles," Simatupang was quoted as saying by Indonesian news website Detik.
Since the beginning of the operation, the search area has been more than doubled.
Earlier in the day, Simatupang said that Indonesian rescuers sent Super Puma helicopters to inspect an area where the Russian team assisting in the search for the wreckage found 30 suspicious objects and a body on Monday.
Multinational search operations are currently underway to find the wreckage and bodies of the 155 passengers and seven crew members of AirAsia's Airbus A320-200, which crashed into the Java Sea on December 28.
