Bad weather hampers efforts to find crashed AirAsia flight's black boxes

The search and rescue team has yet to find the black boxes of crashed AirAsia flight QZ8501 as bad weather still lingers in the crash site, an Indonesian official said here Saturday. [Special coverage]

"Weather in the crash site is extremely bad. Cloudy sky, rain and strong wind still linger in the location that incite high waves up to 4 meters high. The wind strongly blows up to 45 knots, " Director of Operation and Training of Indonesia's National Search and Rescue agency (BASARNAS) SB Supriyadi told a press conference.

He said that such a condition makes international rescue teams fail to descend submersible camera to detect the objects suspicious of the wreckage of the crashed AirAsia plane.

"The undersea stream was too strong, and the water was silty that exacerbates the visibility to only 2 meters. Such a condition made the operation of undersea camera ineffective," Supriyadi added.

The Basarnas has found four objects suspected to be the body parts of the crashed plane in the main searching area near Borneo' s Kumai Bay.

Supriyadi said the submersible cameras operated by most vessels involved in the operation would be deployed should the weather be considered favorable for the search operation.

Sipriyadi said that 60 vessels, 8 planes and 4 helicopters have been deployed for the operation.

So far 30 bodies have been recovered by the search and rescue team.

AirAsia flight QZ8501 crashed on Sunday morning on its way to Singapore from Indonesia's city of Surabaya.