Jakarta, Dec 31: Indonesian officers aforesaid Wednesday sonar has detected part from the missing AirAsia plane at the bottom of the Java ocean which 3 a lot of bodies are recovered, taking to 6 the number of bodies found.

The officers were, however, unsure whether the aircraft, that went missing with 162 aboard Sunday morning enroute to Singapore from Indonesida, is in one piece or has disintegrated, Xinhua reported .

AirAsia Flight QZ8501 had lost contact with the air control tower forty two minutes when coming out from Indonesia’s Surabaya town for Singapore. Its wreckage has been noticed within the waters of Karimata Strait, west of Kalimantan island.

Earlier within the day, 3 more bodies were recovered together with of a lady in a flight attendant’s outfit.

“As presently because the weather is evident, the bodies will be dropped at Pangkalan bun (town),” Bambang Soelistyo, chief of Indonesia’s National Search and Rescue Agency aforesaid.

Hundreds of troopers, police and personnel of the national rescue agency are deployed for the search operation although weather within the space remains unfavourable with waves as high as 2 to 3 metres.

On Wednesday morning, alternative vessels, including 3 warships and 2 survey ships equipped with underwater detectors, were on their way to the crash web site to join the seek for the plane’s black boxes.

On Tuesday, Soelistyo aforesaid at a conference that an Indonesian Air Force C-130 Hercules saw a “shadow” under water, believed to be that of the AirAsia plane.