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AirAsia flight QZ8501 crash: Pilot describes seeing victims 'holding hands' in water

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The pilot who discovered the debris from AirAsia Flight QZ8501 has said he saw that three of the bodies recovered were holding hands. Lieutenant Airman Tri Wobowo, who co-piloted the C130 Hercules aircraft that first saw the items of the aircraft off the coast of Borneo earlier today, described the scene that greeted rescuers in the water. “There are seven to eight people. Three [of them] again hold hands,” he told Indonesian national newspaper Kompas. As well as the bodies, the pilot reported… (www.independent.co.uk) More...

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