Indonesian rescuers lifted the fuselage of the crashed AirAsia jetliner nearly to the water’s surface before it sank to the ocean floor again when the lifting balloons deflated Saturday, a setback in the effort to recover more of the victims’ remains.
Four bodies were discovered though around the area where dozens of divers were struggling with strong current and poor visibility to prepare to retrieve the 30-meter-long wreckage, said Suryadi Bambang Supriyadi, the operations chief at the National Search and Rescue Agency.
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Tatang Kurniadi, head of the National Transportation Safety Committee, has ruled out sabotage and said a preliminary report on the accident is expected to be submitted to the International Civil Aviation Organization next week.
A full analysis of what went wrong could take up to a year, Kurniadi said.
