15 Jan 2015

AirAsia fuselage found

8:50 am on 15 January 2015

Search teams have located the main fuselage of the AirAsia plane that crashed into the Java Sea last month with the loss of all 162 on board, officials say.

Singapore's Defence Minister Ng Eng Hen posted pictures taken by a Singaporean search robot on his Facebook page, the BBC reports.

AirAsia lost contact with the flight on 28 December as it was flying from Surabaya in Indonesia to Singapore.

Dozens of bodies have been found but many of the passengers and crew are thought to still be inside the plane, which made finding the fuselage so important.

So far the plane's two flight recorders and a tail section have been found and brought to shore.