AirAsia QZ 8501: Singapore ship finds missing items including suitcase

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Jan 02, 2015 06:31 pm

Singapore's RSS Valour has recovered several items belonging to passengers from AirAsia Flight QZ 8501 on Friday morning (Jan 2).

Items recovered during the Search and Rescue (SAR) operations include one black suitcase, a gas tube and some debris from the aircraft, according to kompas.com

Post by Ng Eng Hen - Defence Minister.

The items were transported to naval vessel KRI Banda Aceh by a speed boat.

The recovered items have not been taken to Pangkalan Bun yet as Indonesian President Joko Widodo has told the joint SAR team to focus on retrieving the bodies of the passengers.