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February-2014 Malaysia Airlines plane MH17 ‘shot down’ in Ukraine – as it happened Friday 18 July 2014

Ships with sensitive sonar equipment found two large sections of AirAsia Flight 8501, Indonesian officials said Saturday. The objects were found close together at 30 meters in the Java Sea in the sixth day of the operation. Officials told reporters that sonar located the plane parts, which are about 7.2 x 0.5 meters and 9.4 x 4.8 x 0.4 meters long. Weather conditions have stalled an effort to recover the objects. At least 30 bodies of victims have been recovered, authorities said earlier. Five of the victims were found still strapped in their seats, Indonesian navy official Col. Yayan Sofiyan said. Bambang Soelistyo, head of Indonesia's National Search and Rescue Agency, said the search would be stepped up as long as the weather allowed. "We will focus on underwater detection," said Soelistyo, adding ships from Indonesia, Malaysia ,  Singapore  and the United States had been on the scene from before dawn today to try to pinpoint the wreckage and the all-important b