AirAsia: Search progresses as weather improves

Additional bodies were recovered in the AirAsia Flight 8501 crash Monday, as the weather settled enough to give search crews a chance to make progress.

Three bodies were recovered from the water, bringing the total number of bodies recovered to 37.

Five sections of wreckage have been detected, Indonesian officials say.

Divers will attempt again to locate large objects on the sea floor believed to be the plane’s fuselage. But at this point, no reports have emerged of search crews hearing the pingers from the plane’s black boxes.

Divers have been unable to recover anything from the bottom of the Java Sea because of poor visibility.

At least five ships with equipment that can detect the plane's black boxes have been deployed to the area where the suspected plane parts were spotted, said Suryadi B. Supriyadi, Indonesia's National Search and Rescue director of operations.

"If it cannot be done by divers, we will use sophisticated equipment with capabilities of tracking underwater objects and then will lift them up," Supriyadi said.

Five large objects -- the biggest measuring 59 feet long and 18 feet wide and believed to be the fuselage -- have been detected, and Supriyadi repeated that officials expect that many passengers and crew will be found trapped inside.