PM Modi mourns death of passengers on board AirAsia flight
Modi tweeted: "Our thoughts are with the families of those on Flight QZ8501. We offer our condolences & stand firmly with them in this hour of grief."
Aviation company AirAsia Indonesia on Tuesday confirmed that the debris found earlier in the day belonged to its missing flight QZ8501 that went missing with 162 people on board on Sunday morning.
"AirAsia Indonesia regrets to inform that The National Search and Rescue Agency Republic of Indonesia (BASARNAS) today confirmed that the debris found earlier today is indeed from QZ8501, the flight that had lost contact with air traffic control on the morning of 28th December 2014," the company said in a statement.
More than 40 bodies and debris have been recovered on Tuesday from the Java Sea as search operation continued for the missing AirAsia Indonesia flight.
The debris of the aircraft was found in the Karimata Strait around 110 nautical miles south west from Pangkalan Bun.
With the recovery of the debris of the missing airbus, all indications now suggest that it crashed in the Java Sea southwest of the island of Borneo.
Indonesian Navy confirmed that they retrieved 40 bodies and more bodies continue to be recovered.
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