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Searchers hopeful in AirAsia search

– ‘Wing flap’ found –

Another search official, S.B. Supriyadi, said the bodies and debris recovered so far had been found within a relatively small area, which indicated the fuselage was likely nearby.

“We found parts of the plane which could be part of the wing or the plane’s interior,” he said on local television channel MetroTV, displaying a white wooden structure about 1.5 metres by 1.0 metre (five feet by three feet) with part of a corrugated hose attached.

Former transport minister Jusman Syafii Djamal said it appeared to be part of a wing flap.

Supriyadi told MetroTV that they had also detected a metal structure but it proved to be a false lead, possibly a sunken ship.

There are dozens of shipwrecks in the Java Sea, both modern and from World War II when the area was the scene of a major naval battle between the Allies and the invading Japanese.

Supriyadi separately told AFP that the weather had improved to allow the use of helicopters as well as ships in the search.

“Besides the aerial search, we’ll concentrate on searching for the fuselage using sonar detectors,” he said.

“Hopefully we’ll be able to locate it so that the victims will be immediately retrieved and brought to their families.”

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