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| AirAsia QZ8501: Tail of crashed plane found | |
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| The tail of crashed AirAsia flight QZ8501 has been found in the Java Sea, the head of Indonesia's search and rescue has said. | |
| The tail is where the crucial black box voice and flight data recorders are located which would give investigators clues as to what caused the crash. | |
| The aircraft was en route from Surabaya, Indonesia to Singapore on 28 December with 162 people on board when it disappeared from radar. | |
| No survivors have been found. | |
| "We have found the tail that has been our main target today," Bambang Soelistyo told reporters in the capital, Jakarta. | |
| He said divers and unmanned underwater vehicles spotted the tail, which is the first significant piece wreckage from the crash to be identified. | |
| Forty bodies have been recovered so far but authorities believe most of the passengers could still be inside the main body of the plan. | |
| More than 30 ships have been involved in the international search and rescue effort. |