Source: www.slate.com - Monday, December 29, 2014
Officials are seeing little need to mince words about the fate of AirAsia Flight 8501, making it clear there is almost no hope of finding anything but debris of the jet carrying 162 people. "Based on the coordinates that we know, the evaluation would be that any estimated crash position is in the sea, and that the hypothesis is the plane is at the bottom of the sea," Indonesia search and rescue chief Henry Bambang Soelistyo said at a news conference in Jakarta, reports the BBC . Soelistyo also warned that “the capability of our equipment is not optimum” to carry out an underwater search and made it clear the country would be asking for international assistance. The United States, the United Kingdom and France have all offered to help with the needed technology, notes Reuters . An Indonesian helicopter detected two oil spots in the water on Monday while an Austrlian plane “spotted objects” on the Java Sea but it wasn’t clear whether any of those things were connected with the AirAsia plane that vanished from the radar Sunday morning while it was flying from Surabaya, Indonesia, to Singapore with 162 people on board , reports the Associated Press . As search-and-rescue operations continued, officials said there had been no signals from the plane’s emergency locator transmitters and the search area was widened “from around Bangka island south of Singapore to include waters farther north, in addition to a part of the island of Borneo,
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Officials are seeing little need to mince words about the fate of AirAsia Flight 8501, making it clear there is almost no hope of finding anything but debris of the jet carrying 162 people. "Based on the coordinates that we know, the evaluation would be that any estimated crash position is in the sea, and that the hypothesis is the plane is at the bottom of the sea," Indonesia search and rescue chief Henry Bambang Soelistyo said at a news conference in Jakarta, reports the BBC . Soelistyo also warned that “the capability of our equipment is not optimum” to carry out an underwater search and made it clear the country would be asking for international assistance. The United States, the United Kingdom and France have all offered to help with the needed technology, notes Reuters . An Indonesian helicopter detected two oil spots in the water on Monday while an Austrlian plane “spotted objects” on the Java Sea but it wasn’t clear whether any of those things were connected with the AirAsia plane that vanished from the radar Sunday morning while it was flying from Surabaya, Indonesia, to Singapore with 162 people on board , reports the Associated Press . As search-and-rescue operations continued, officials said there had been no signals from the plane’s emergency locator transmitters and the search area was widened “from around Bangka island south of Singapore to include waters farther north, in addition to a part of the island of Borneo,
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