Divers Found Six Bodies Belted in Seats at AirAsia Crash Site

MOSCOW, January 22 (Sputnik) — Indonesian divers have managed to recover another six bodies from the wreckage of an AirAsia flight that crashed into the Java Sea in December, Reuters reports.

Indonesian Naval Rear Admiral Widodo was cited by the news agency as pointing out, however, that due to poor visibility and adverse weather conditions, divers were unable to access the plane’s fuselage, where most of the passengers’ bodies are likely to be located. "However we still predict we can evacuate all the bodies from there," Widodo told reporters aboard the warship KRI Banda Aceh, Reuters adds.

The Wall Street Journal reports that the discovered bodies were still strapped in their seats. The recovery has caused the search officials to reconsider plans to raise the main section of the aircraft, which currently rests on the seabed approximately 98 feet below the surface. "The first job is to make sure there are no more bodies in the fuselage," one of the search officials said, according to the newspaper.

According to the Globe and Mail, the Indonesian National Transportation Safety Committee's head Tatang Kurniadi had already ruled out the possibility of the crash being caused by sabotage. The official had also added that a preliminary report on the accident is to be submitted to the International Civil Aviation Organization next week, the newspaper adds.

AirAsia Flight QZ8501, an Airbus A320-200, crashed into the Java Sea on December 28, 2014 while bound from the Indonesian city of Surabaya to Singapore. A total of 59 victims' bodies, as well as the two flight recorders, have been recovered so far.