Wednesday 31 December 2014

Passengers on Flight 8501 knew they were going down: Victims had time to put on life-jackets - and two were found holding hands

Two coffins were seen at Juanda Airport near Surabaya in East Java province this morning (main image), where a crisis centre has been providing information to anxious family members (bottom right) since Sunday. The bodies were first transported in body bags from the crash site - 100 miles off the Indonesian coast of

Borneo Island - to Iskandar Military Airport (top right) near the town of Pangkalan Bun, where they were placed in coffins for the short journey to East Java for formal identification. Representatives from Basarnas, Indonesia's search and rescue agency, said a seventh body recovered from the Java Sea this morning was wearing a life jacket, while a pilot assisting the operation claimed three of the victims were found floating in the water still holding hands.

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