Indonesian soldiers carry a coffin containing a victim of AirAsia Flight 8501 upon arrival at Indonesian Military Air Force base in Surabaya, Indonesia on Dec. 31. (AP Photo/Firdia Lisnawati)

(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.

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