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Divers Hunt for AirAsia Black Box after Finding Part of Jet Tail in Ocean

Divers looking for the crashed AirAsia Bhd. jetliner found part of the plane´s tail, putting them a step closer to locating the black boxes that may explain the accident. The search since yesterday is focusing on finding objects under water …

UPDATE: Divers Hunt AirAsia Jet in Larger Area Amid Bad Weather

Indonesian Navy divers hunted for more wreckage and recorders from the crashed AirAsia Bhd. jetliner as inclement weather and mud at the bottom of the sea hampered their efforts. Three more bodies were recovered today, taking the total to 37, …

AirAsia Search Hampered by Bad Weather; Black Box Locater Deployed

Search teams looking for the crashed AirAsia Bhd. jetliner’s black box will deploy side-scan sonar and pinger locaters as inclement weather off Indonesia’s coast hinders efforts to recover bodies and the plane’s fuselage. The international team has set 1,575 square …

Adverse Weather Hinders Efforts to Recover AirAsia Flight Data Recorders

Indonesian authorities began deploying divers to find debris from the crashed AirAsia Bhd. jetliner as a day of adverse weather hindered efforts to find the plane’s black boxes. Searchers recovered seven bodies so far, including that of a female flight …

Undersea Search for Missing Malaysian Airliner Refined

The massive undersea search area for a missing Malaysian airliner in the southern Indian Ocean could be extended farther south based on new satellite analysis, only weeks before the multimillion dollar, yearlong sonar hunt for wreckage is due to begin, …

Deep Sea Search Locates, Recovers Air France Flight Data Recorder

Deep sea search parties have found one of two flight data recorders from an Air France plane that crashed off the coast of Brazil in 2009, investigators said on Sunday, reviving hopes of understanding what caused the crash. French investigators …