Debris & floating bodies of AirAsia passangers found in the sea.

Grieving relatives of Air Asia crash victims have been to hospital after an Indonesian television station showed disturbing images of swollen bodies floating in the sea.

Teams searching for the missing AirAsia flight 8501 today found scores of dead bodies, luggage, a plane door and an emergency slide floating in the water off the coast of Borneo Island. 

Images shown on an Indonesian new channel showed at least one bloated corpse floating in the water, causing many of victims' relatives - who were watching live reports at crisis-centre at Juanda International Airport in Surabaya - to burst into tears, and at least one woman to collapse in grief.

At least 40 of the bodies, many of which were not wearing life jackets - have already been removed from the water and taken from the scene on board an Indonesian navy ship.

The Airbus A320-200 was travelling from Surabaya in Indonesia to Singapore when it vanished on Sunday, with 162 people aboard.The three recovered bodies, swollen but intact, were taken to an Indonesian navy ship, National Search and Rescue Director SB Supriyadi told reporters in the nearest town, Pangkalan Bun. 

The victims were not wearing life jackets.

AirAsia group chief executive Tony Fernandes said on Twitter: 'My heart is filled with sadness for all the families involved in QZ 8501. On behalf of AirAsia my condolences to all. Words cannot express how sorry I am.'

There were no immediate reports of any survivors, although the presence of a life raft might raise hopes people survived the crash.

Below are some debris from the aircraft:

This is really tragic! I was hoping some people would be found alive, maybe  if  they were wearing life jackets...the impact and crash must have been too sudden for them to ready themselves...


May they rest in peace.

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