Searchers have now recovered both so-called black boxes from AirAsia Flight QZ8501 and may have located the fuselage of the plane, an Indonesian official said Tuesday, adding more pieces to help solve the puzzle of what caused the disaster.
The fuselage, or main body, of the plane is believed to have been found by a ship scanning for wreckage northeast of where the tail section was previously discovered, said Supriyadi, an operations coordinator at Indonesia's national search and rescue agency who goes by only one name.
But he said he hasn't seen the full report on the reported discovery yet -- and it hasn't been confirmed so far by the head of the search and rescue agency.
The discovery of the fuselage would be a significant development as officials have suggested that many of the bodies of those on board the plane are likely to be found with it.
Forty-eight bodies have so far been recovered from the sea, some of them still strapped into seats. But more than 100 remain missing.
The overwhelming majority of the people on Flight QZ8501 were Indonesian. There were also citizens of Britain, France, Malaysia, Singapore and South Korea.
On Tuesday, divers retrieved the cockpit voice recorder, which is designed to retain all sounds on a plane's flight deck.
The device is expected to help investigators understand what went wrong aboard Flight QZ8501, which went down in the Java Sea last month with 162 people aboard as it was headed toward Singapore from the Indonesian city of Surabaya.
On Monday, searchers recovered the plane's other key information source, the flight data recorder, which stores a vast amount of information about the aircraft's performance, including air speed and cabin pressure.
The flight data recorder tells investigators what happened on a plane, but the cockpit voice recorder tells them why, said Mardjono Siswosuwarno, a senior official at Indonesia's National Transportation Safety Committee, which is leading the investigation into the disaster.
"The why is mostly in there," he said of the voice recorder, which captures conversations between pilots as well as other sounds in the cockpit. Click to signup for FREE news updates, latest information and hottest gists everyday
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