Indonesia

Indonesian divers Jan. 22 recovered six bodies, some still belted into their seats, near the main section of an AirAsia plane that crashed into the Java Sea last month, but failed again to reach the fuselage.
      

Warning alarms in AirAsia flight QZ8501 were "screaming" as the pilots desperately tried to stabilise the plane just before it plunged into the Java Sea last month, a crash investigator said Jan. 21.
        

Indonesia's Transport Minister Ignasius Jonan announced on Tuesday that the crashed AirAsia plane climbed too fast before stalling.

According to Jonan, the jet ascended at a speed of 1828 metres per minute, which neither a passenger nor a military plane would attempt to climb so fast, the BBC reports.

Tourism Minister Nikolina Angelkova has presented plans to emphasize cultural and historical routes as a key point in the advertisement of Bulgaria as a tourist destination.

For centuries, ideologues and politicians in the West have positioned themselves regarding Islam in a defensive way.

Turkey has been in a transition period, but now we need to change our constitution together, Sabanc? Holding Chairperson Güler Sabanc? said at the opening ceremony of the new Kordsa plant in Indonesia on Jan. 13.

Sabanc? also noted that there are both challenged and opportunities facing the Turkish economy right now, which all need to be assessed very carefully.

Indonesian divers on Jan. 13 retrieved the cockpit voice recorder from beneath the wreckage of an AirAsia plane that crashed into the Java Sea as the airline's boss vowed to overcome the "toughest times" he has known.
      

Indonesian divers in the Java Sea recovered the second part of the black box of the crashed AirAsia flight QZ8501 on Tuesday.

The discovery of the cockpit voice recorder comes a day after the flight data recorder was retrieved on Monday, the BBC reports.

Indonesian divers have recovered the flight data recorder of the crashed AirAsia plane, which is believed to be at the bottom of the Java Sea.

The second part of the black box, the cockpit voice recorder has also been located, but divers have not reached it yet, the BBC reports.

The flight data recorder was retrieved Jan. 12 from the AirAsia plane that crashed in the Java Sea a fortnight ago with 162 people on board, Indonesia's national search and rescue chief said.