Grieving relatives of Air Asia crash victims have been to hospital after an Indonesian television station showed disturbing images of swollen bodies floating in the sea.
At least 40 bodies have been recovered from the sea in the search for missing AirAsia Flight QZ8501, the Indonesian navy says.
The bodies were spotted along with debris floating in the Java Sea off the Indonesian part of Borneo, in one of the search zones for the plane.
There has been no official confirmation that the remains come from the plane.
Teams searching for the missing AirAsia flight 8501 today found scores of dead bodies, luggage, a plane door and an emergency slide floating in the water off the coast of Borneo Island. Images shown on an Indonesian new channel showed at least one bloated corpse floating in the water, causing many of victims' relatives who were watching live reports at crisis-centre at Juanda International Airport in Surabaya - to burst into tears, and at least one woman to collapse in grief.At least 40 of the bodies, many of which were not wearing life jackets have already been removed from the water and taken from the scene on board an Indonesian navy ship.The Airbus A320-200 was travelling from Surabaya in Indonesia to Singapore when it vanished on Sunday, with 162 people aboard.
The Airbus A320-200, carrying 162 people from Surabaya in Indonesia to Singapore, disappeared on Sunday.
Relatives of passengers on the plane watching the pictures were visibly shocked.
Later, the Indonesian navy reported that 40 bodies had been retrieved by one warship.
Its spokesman said the rescuers were continuing to recover bodies and were "very busy now".
AirAsia CEO Tony Fernandes tweeted to the families: "My heart is filled with sadness for all the families involved in QZ 8501. On behalf of AirAsia my condolences."
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