Human remains are being recovered in the aftermath of the crash of an Indonesian airliner into the Java Sea with 189 passengers and crew aboard and searchers now believe they may have found a large piece of the plane’s fuselage.
Search-and-rescue personnel have found the remains of at least 48 people who were aboard Lion Air Flight JT610, a Boeing 737 Max 8, when it lost contact Monday with air-traffic controllers 13 minutes after taking off from the capital, Jakarta, according to the National Search and Rescue Agency.
The agency says rescuers expanded their search to 15 nautical miles from the crash site in the Java Sea.
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