Navy vessel detects an object suspected to be tail
Strait Times reports:PANGKALAN BUN/JAKARTA - An Indonesian Navy vessel detected an object suspected to be the tail of AirAsia flight QZ8501 on Friday, Metro TV reported.
"At 7.34am, we detected a piece of wreckage suspected to be a plane's tail," said KRI Bung Tomo commander, Colonel Yayan, in a phone interview with Metro TV on Friday.
The ship's sonar detected the object located 29 metres deep in the Karimata Strait.
According to the report, visual checks are needed to confirm if the object is indeed a plane's tail.