The Indonesian Navy has said rescue workers searching for the doomed AirAsia flight 8501 have recovered at least 40 bodies from the Java Sea.
Bodies were discovered alongside luggage, a plane door and an emergency slide floating in the water 100 miles off the coast of Borneo Island earlier today after three days of searches.
A naval spokesman said the rescuers remain 'very busy' retrieving the victims from the sea.
The recovery of 40 bodies came as devastated relatives of AirAsia crash victims collapsed in grief and were taken to hospital after an Indonesian television station showed disturbing uncensored footage of the swollen corpses floating in the sea.
Images shown on a news channel showed at least one body floating in the water, causing the victims' relatives - who were watching live reports at crisis-centre at Juanda International Airport in Surabaya - to burst into tears, with some fainting and requiring hospital treatment.
Photos of devastated relatives below...
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