Recovery crews make preparations to lift the AirAsia fuselage from the seabed as funeral services are held for some of the victims. Julie Noce reports.
Indonesian air force personnel carry the flight data recorder of the ill-fated AirAsia Flight 8501 that crashed in the Java Sea. Picture: AP/Achmad Ibrahim Source: AP
THE AirAsia plane that crashed into the Java Sea climbed at an abnormally high speed before suddenly stalling, Indonesia's transport minister says.
"In the final minutes, the plane climbed at a speed which was beyond normal," said Transport Minister Ignasius Jonan, citing radar data.
"The plane suddenly went up at a speed above the normal limit that it was able to climb to. Then it stalled," he told reporters on Tuesday.
Investigators have already ruled out a terrorist attack after examining data from the plane's black box recovered last week, according to Reuters.
About 50 per cent of the information from the black box flight recorders has been decoded lead investigators told Reuters in an exclusive interview.
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Indonesian Armed Forces Chief General Moeldoko, centre left, and Chief of the National Transportation Safety Board Tatang Kurniadi, centre right, look at one of the black boxes. Picture: AP/Achmad Ibrahim Source: AP
Earlier at a parliamentary hearing, Mr Jonan said radar data showed the Airbus A320-200 appeared at one point to be climbing at a rate of 6000 feet a minute before the crash. There were several other planes in the area at the time.
"I think it is rare even for a fighter jet to be able to climb 6000 feet per minute," Mr Jonan said. "For a commercial flight, climbing around 1000 to 2000 (feet) is maybe already considered extraordinary, because it is not meant to climb that fast."
His comments came after Indonesian investigators said they were focusing on the possibility of human error or problems with the plane having caused the crash, following an initial analysis of the cockpit voice recorder.
"We didn't hear any other person, no explosion," investigator Nurcahyo Utomo told reporters, explaining why terrorism had been ruled out.
Indonesian soldiers and rescuers carry a coffin bearing the remains of body number 50. Picture: AFP / Juni Kriswanto Source: AFP
In the recordings received so far the air safety investigator has said the pilot's voice is the only one that can be heard in the cockpit.
The recordings from the cockpit also don't show any sign of a threat just a busy pilot handling the plane, the investigator said.
The search for passengers is ongoing as is the effort to recover the plane.
Indonesian search teams were considering using a crane to recover the fuselage of the AirAsia jet.
Thirteen divers had been sent to estimate the weight of the remaining wreckage and look for bodies but weather was hampering their work, search operation director Suryadi Supriyadi said on Monday.
"There's still no significant progress so far," he said.
The technical options to raise the fuselage include a barge equipped with a crane or inflated lifting bags used to recover the aircraft's tail last week.
The aircraft crashed on December 28 en route to Singapore from Surabaya, Indonesia with 162 people on board.
So far 53 bodies have been found. There have been no survivors.
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