“The bodies [found by the rescuers] are already outside the red rectangle [rescue operation area], that is why we will expand it to the right,” Henry Bambang Soelistyo said as quoted by Detik.com.
According to the head of Basarnas, Tuesday’s major achievement was the recovery of two bodies, which increased the overall number of bodies found to 39, with 16 of them being identified.
The search and rescue operation is being conducted about 90 nautical miles off the coast of Borneo. The United States, Singapore, Malaysia, China and Russia are among the countries that have sent personnel to the multinational rescue team, which is searching the remaining bodies, the debris of the plane and the black box flight recorders.
AirAsia's Airbus A320-200, carrying 162 people on board, crashed on December 28 en route from Surabaya to Singapore. The aircraft did not send a distress signal before it lost contact with air traffic control.
