The bodies were spotted along with debris floating in the Java Sea off the Indonesian part of Borneo, in one of the search zones for the plane.
The Airbus A320-200, carrying 155 people from Surabaya in Indonesia to Singapore, disappeared on Sunday.
“The objects had been found 160km south-west of Pangkalan Bun in Borneo`s Central Kalimantan province”, said Indonesian civil aviation official.
On board the plane were 137 adult passengers, 17 children and one infant, along with two pilots and five crew.
AirAsia QZ8501: Forty bodies found in missing plane search
30 December 2014
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At least 40 bodies have been recovered from the Java Sea in the search for missing AirAsia Flight QZ8501, the Indonesian navy says, BBC reported.
