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Four more bodies and a fifth large piece of debris have been recovered from the Java Sea near the crash site of AirAsia Flight QZ8501, which went down a week ago with 162 people aboard.

 quotes search-and-rescue chief Bambang Soelistyo as saying today that:


 at the scene said bad weather was making the search difficult. He said that four divers in the water had recovered the four additional bodies.


As the search continued, relatives of the victims sang and cried at a tiny Christian chapel in Surabaya, Indonesia, where a quarter of the passengers had been members, The Associated Press said:

Only about 10 percent of Indonesia's 250 million people are Christian in a country that is predominately Muslim.

 writes that "leaked official documents have given rise to allegations that AirAsia Indonesia violated procedures."
The first allegation, the newspaper said, was that "the pilots of the flight had not received a required weather report" from Indonesia's national weather agency. The 

 also reports that the airline did not have permission to fly the Surabaya to Singapore route on Sundays.
However, 

the Civil Aviation Authority of Singapore says that approval for the flight had been granted

 "based on the air rights that were available under the air services deal between both countries and available landing slots at [Singapore's] Changi Airport.
The newspaper quotes AirAsia Indonesia Safety and Security Director Achmad Sadikin denying that the flight had been unauthorized.  Copyright 2019 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org.

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Four more bodies and a fifth large piece of debris have been recovered from the Java Sea near the crash site of AirAsia Flight QZ8501.

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