Debris and wreckage is slowly being pulled from the Java Sea by searchers who have been battling with rough conditions in their bid to find AirAsia Flight 8501.
On Wednesday, January 7 searchers made a breakthrough as images taken on the sea floor showed the tail section, where the flight’s data recorders or black boxes are located.
The flight went missing on a routine two-hour trip from Surabaya to Singapore on December 28, 2014.
Here is a time line of the events leading up the plane’s disappearance, according to Djoko Murdjatmojo, the acting director general for Air Transportation Affairs in Indonesia:
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1 France
6 Indonesia
There were 23 “no shows.”
