Remains of seats from the AirAsia flight QZ8501crash displayed at the Royal Malaysian Navy KD Kasturi at Port of Kumai on January 6, 2015 in Pangkalan Bun, Indonesia
Divers and an unmanned underwater vehicle spotted the tail of the missing AirAsia plane in the Java Sea, the first confirmed sighting of any major wreckage 11 days after Flight 8501 disappeared with 162 people on board, an official said. Powerful currents and murky water continue to hinder the operation, but searchers managed to get a photograph of the debris after it was detected by an Indonesian survey ship, National Search and Rescue chief Henry Bambang Soelistyo told reporters. One released image appears to show an upside down "A" painted on a piece of metal. Picture: BASARNAS/AP
The find is particularly important because the all-important cockpit voice and flight data recorders, or black boxes, are located in the aircraft's tail. Smaller pieces of the plane,
such as seats and an emergency door, had previously been collected from the surface. Picture: BASARNAS/AP