TV here just confirmed that they have found wreckage.
Currently, 3 meter waves are preventing the deployment of divers to recover the recorders.
Looks the search has produced a sonar image of the aircraft wreck but it has not yet been released to the public.
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Additionally: One victim out of seven recovered until now has been found with life vests on, suggesting that the passengers had time to put them on before or after the impact on the water.
The aircraft did not disintegrate in the air, thats also confirmed by sonar and floating debris. The aircraft is found up-side down in 30-40m deep water, about 3 km away from the first found debris, broken up in big parts (which suggest a slow emergency ditching rather than an uncontrolled high-speed crash).
Currently, 3 meter waves are preventing the deployment of divers to recover the recorders.
If that is true, then there could still be survivors. Was the cause of death of life vest person blunt force trauma or dehydration?
Divers? How deep underwater is the crash site?
Additionally: One victim out of seven recovered until now has been found with life vests on, suggesting that the passengers had time to put them on before or after the impact on the water
If a plane ditches, aren't the black boxes meant to immediately send out pulses? Including one to a satellite for quicker rescue?
It seems that the A320 does have an ELT fitted.
https://www.scribd.com/doc/24949816/23/−65-EMERGENCY-LOCATER-TRANS-MITTER-ELT
so, if true, why didn't anyone get any signals from this plane.......
Some investigators are reported to believe that the plane may have gone into an aerodynamic stall as the pilot climbed steeply to avoid a storm.
Officials quoted by the Reuters news agency say that the plane was travelling at 32,000ft (9,750m) when it requested to climb to 38,000ft to avoid bad weather.
When air traffic controllers consented to allow it to climb to 34,000ft a few minutes later, they got no reply.
Sribudi Siswardani's 31-year-old son was on board AirAsia flight QZ8501 - on his first trip overseas
A source quoted by Reuters said that radar data appeared to show that the aircraft's "unbelievably" steep climb may have been beyond the Airbus A320's limits.
"So far, the numbers taken by the radar are unbelievably high. This rate of climb is very high, too high. It appears to be beyond the performance envelope of the aircraft," the source said, while emphasising that more information was needed before a definitive conclusion could be reached.
This just got weird.
Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-30647375
To me, this allows for only four possibilities:
1. The crew took the aircraft out of normal law ON PURPOSE to climb rapidly - Not very likely as crews are trained to only disabled normal law if something goes very wrong with the computers.
2. The aircraft tripped out of Normal Law because of Pitot icing or something similar and it really is another AF447.
3. The radar readings are wrong, possibly if it's secondary radar. If it's primary radar then it's reading data from the transponder and the transponder is transmitting what it believes the aircraft to be doing which may not be what it is doing.
4. Some sort of weather phenomena we've not seen before, if so, this should be visible on satellite data but no one else reported it.
I would also add #5: Asian investigators.
Currently, you also observe the MH370 nonsense there - one organisation claiming to be the only true investigating body and the other one not, and all information of the other group is wrong.
If it climbed beyond belief and stalled out, how likely is it that it would have crashed as 'lightly' as the damage shows? I mean, with enough altitude, you could recover somewhat, but I don't think airliners tend to recover at all from highly vertical movement.
Hurricane hunters encounter such updrafts very often and are trained in not getting caught on their bad end.
An Indonesian naval patrol vessel has found what could be the tail of a crashed AirAsia passenger jet, the section where the crucial black box voice and flight data recorders are located, officials said on Monday.
What depth of water is it in?
Those photos are remarkably clear.