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Ice cited as possible factor in AirAsia crash

The aircraft that disappeared Dec. 28 with 162 people on board appears to have flown into a storm cloud, with the jets engines possibly affected by ice formation, researchers from the Indonesia weather office wrote in a report.

By Andrea Rothman, Bloomberg, Eko Listiyorini, Bloomberg | Updated on January 05, 2015
National Search and Rescue Agency personnel carry seats from AirAsia Flight 8501 in Pangkalan Bun, Indonesia on Jan. 5. (AP Photo/Tatan Syuflana)

(Bloomberg) — Indonesian Navy divers hunted for more wreckage and recorders from the crashed AirAsia Bhd. jetliner as inclement weather and mud at the bottom of the sea hampered their efforts.

Three more bodies were recovered today, taking the total to 37, while high-frequency side-scan sonars were deployed by USS Fort Worth to detect signals emitted by the plane’s cockpit-voice recorder and the flight-data recorder. The aircraft that disappeared Dec. 28 with 162 people on board appears to have flown into a storm cloud, with the jet’s engines possibly affected by ice formation, researchers from the Indonesia weather office wrote in a report, citing meteorological data from the flight’s last known location over the Java Sea.

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