Today Update on missing AirAsia plane

This morning, there are reports that Indonesian search and rescue officials have confirmed that more than 40 bodies have been found in the sea, while a navy spokesman said teams had so far recovered a lot of bodies, plus a plane door and oxygen tanks.A footage of a floating dead body was broadcast in a centre set aside for the relatives of the passengers on board the ill fated plane and here here is how AFP described the situation.



  " Relatives of passengers on AirAsia flight QZ8501 began crying hysterically and fainting Tuesday as Indonesian television footage showed a body floating in the sea during aerial searches for the plane.

    At least two distraught family members were carried out on stretchers from the room where they had been waiting for news in Surabaya, Indonesia’s second largest city - the take-off point for the aircraft that disappeared during a storm on Sunday.

    “My heart will be totally crushed if it’s true. I will lose a son,” 60-year-old Dwijanto, who like many Indonesians goes by one name, told AFP...

    As the first body was shown floating in the water on rolling television news, relatives burst into tears and hugged one another amid cries for more ambulances, said an AFP reporter at the scene.

    One man covered his face and had to be held up by two other men before he fainted and was taken out by stretcher. Another woman was screaming and crying as she was supported by the mayor of Surabaya.

    A female AirAsia officer shouted at the television media for showing footage of a floating body, while about 200 journalists were barred from the room holding the families, the windows of which were boarded up.

    “Is it possible for you not to show a picture of the dead? Please do not show a picture of a dead body,” said the officer. “That’s crazy.”