Indonesian officials say six bodies have been found and at least three recovered during the search for missing AirAsia Flight QZ8501. The bodies were spotted along with debris floating in the Java Sea off the Indonesian part of Borneo, in one of the search zones for the missing aircraft.

The Airbus A320-200, carrying 162 people from Surabaya in Indonesia to Singapore, disappeared on Sunday. Search operation head Bambang Soelistyo said he is 95% certain the objects spotted are from the AirAsia Flight QZ8501. He said, all resources were now being sent to the area where the debris was found, and all objects or bodies found would be taken to Pangkalan Bun.

Mr Soelistyo said, ships with more sophisticated technology were being deployed to check whether larger parts of the plane were submerged beneath the debris. The objects have been found 160 km south-west of Pangkalan Bun. On board the plane were 137 adult passengers, 17 children and one infant, along with two pilots and five crew. Most were Indonesian but the passengers included one UK national, a Malaysian, a Singaporean and three South Koreans.