Tail of crashed AirAsia plane discovered in Java Sea

Thursday, January 8, 2015

PANGKALAN BUN, Indonesia -- Divers and an unmanned underwater vehicle Wednesday spotted the tail of the AirAsia plane that crashed into the Java Sea with 162 people on board -- an important finding because the jet's all-important black boxes are in that part of the aircraft.

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