(Bloomberg) -- Search crews recovering debris and bodies from the waters off of Indonesia are poised to intensify their search for the fuselage of the crashed AirAsia Bhd plane and the black boxes that may answer what doomed it.
The cockpit-voice and flight-data recorders are essential to piecing together what happened to Flight 8501 in the six minutes between the time the pilot asked the control tower for permission to deviate from the flight path and when the jet dropped out of radar contact.
The aircraft went missing on Sunday during a trip from Surabaya, Indonesia, to Singapore with 162 people on board. Tuesday in Indonesia search crews discovered objects including what appears to be an emergency door as well as submerged items resembling plane parts, F.H. Bambang Sulistyo, head of the national search and rescue agency, said in Jakarta. Two female bodies and one male body were retrieved, he said. No mention was made of survivors.
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