This Air Asia crash, if it's similar to the Air New Zealand crash, was in bad weather making diagnosis and recovery even harder, so even with the best pilots, they may not have had a chance to recover.
Coagie:
While the weather situation was much worse for the Air Asia crash than the Air New Zealand crash, the altitude situation was much worse for the Air New Zealand crash: the Air New Zealand pilot did the acceptance tests at low altitude so there was very little time and distance to attempt recovery--while the Air Asia was at high altitude and had a significant amount of time and distance to attempt recovery.
The search and rescue team, on Friday morning, found the bodies of three more victims of the AirAsia QZ8501 flight, Commander of Iskandar Military Airport in Pangkalan Bun Jhonson H. Simatupang stated here on Friday.
"In total, we have found 46 bodies out of the 162 passengers of the plane," stated Jhonson.
http://www.antaranews.com/en/news/97...-victims-found