An Indonesian military helicopter flies over a survey ship as they take part in an operation to raise the tail of AirAsia QZ8501 from the Java sea on Thursday. Photo: AFP
Elite Indonesian military divers battled strong currents on Thursday in an effort to reach the submerged tail of crashed AirAsia Flight QZ8501 in the hopes of finding its crucial black box data recorders.
Bad weather and huge waves have plagued multinational efforts to find the wreckage of the plane in the Java Sea
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The biggest breakthrough came on Wednesday with the discovery of the tail, which is where the black -boxes are kept, buried into the seabed 30 meters underwater.
However strong currents stymied efforts on Thursday morning by -divers from the Indonesian Marines' elite diving unit to penetrate into the tail, search and rescue agency chief Bambang Soelistyo told reporters in Jakarta.
