Media playback is unsupported on your device Media caption Searchers think they have found the debris site from flight QZ8501 
 
 At least 40 bodies have been recovered from the sea in the search for missing AirAsia Flight QZ8501, the Indonesian navy says. One search official told CNN that he believes sonar equipment has detected wreckage from the plane at the bottom of the sea. Debris was found 100-200 kilometers (60-120 miles) from the aircraft's last known location over the Java Sea, Indonesia's search and rescue agency said. Those could help investigators determine what went wrong on the flight, which lost contact with air traffic controllers on Sunday with 162 people aboard. Families' anguish 
 
 As families watched a live news conference Tuesday about the discovery of the debris and saw video of a helicopter lowering a diver to what appeared to be a floating body, some people fainted. At least two people collapsed and were taken out of the room on stretchers. Some sat with their eyes full of tears, hands covering their mouths or heads buried in their hands. AirAsia CEO Tony Fernandes tweeted to the families: "My heart is filled with sadness for all the families involved in QZ 8501. "On behalf of AirAsia my condolences to all. Media playback is unsupported on your device Media caption Alice Budisatrijo witnessed relatives screaming and crying as they watched a news conference on screens in Surabaya 
 
 Search operation head Bambang Soelistyo said he was 95% certain the objects shown were from the plane, adding that a shadow was spotted under water which appeared to be in the shape of a plane. All resources were now being sent to the area where the debris was found, he said. The US destroyer USS Sampson is on its way to the zone. Search and rescue teams are diverting all their resources to where the debris is, in the Karimata Strait, about 110 nautical miles southwest of the Indonesian city of Pangkalan Bun, AirAsia said. The Airbus A320-200 lost contact with air traffic control early Sunday shortly after the pilot requested permission to turn and climb to a higher altitude because of bad weather, according to Indonesian officials. "Until we get the black boxes, we won't know what's going on with the engines," said Bill Savage, a former pilot with 30 years of experience.
– The fate of Flight 8501 now appears to be a tragedy, not a mystery: Indonesian officials say search-and-rescue teams have recovered debris and bodies from the sea around 10 miles from where the AirAsia jet was last heard from on Sunday, in a spot roughly 100 miles from land. The Indonesian navy says bodies have been removed from the sea, and that rescuers are "very busy now," reports the BBC. Workers being lowered on ropes from a hovering helicopter are encountering six-foot waves in their quest to retrieve more bodies. One body, that of a half-naked man whose shirt partially covered his head, was shown on Indonesian TV, to wails in a waiting room at the Surabaya airport (more on that here). Earlier, an Indonesian military aircraft spotted debris floating off the coast of Borneo, including suitcases and a life jacket, which officials say they have now confirmed came from the Airbus A320, the New York Times reports. Officials say the bodies were found after a search plane spotted a shadow on the seabed that is believed to be the missing plane, CNN reports. More search teams, divers, and ships with sonar equipment are being sent to the site off the coast of Borneo, where the depth of the sea is around 100 feet. "My heart is filled with sadness for all the families involved in QZ 8501," AirAsia founder Tony Fernandes tweeted. "On behalf of AirAsia my condolences to all. Words cannot express how sorry I am."