Lion Air plane crash: the bodies of passengers still found under the seats at the bottom of the sea, said a responsible

Jakarta, Indonesia – Divers found bodies of passengers still tied to their seats amidst the debris of the Lion Air air jet that crashed on Monday, said Thursday a senior Indonesian search and rescue team official. Isswarto, who bears a name, said at a press conference that divers were recovering the remains.

He added that the divers had also found many aircraft debris, most of them small, but that they had not found any significant part of the plane.

Divers on Thursday found a flight recorder on the airliner that crashed on the seabed, a crucial development in the investigation into the causes of death of this 2 – month – old man. An airplane will dive into the Indonesian seas earlier this week, killing 189 people on board.

A television channel showed images of two divers after surfacing, swimming up to an inflatable boat and placing the bright orange device in a large container that was transferred to a search and rescue vessel.

"I was desperate because the current was powerful, but I'm confident of the tools that have been given me," said the 1st Sgt of the Navy. Hendra, who uses only one name, in a television interview. After reducing the possible location, "I started digging and cleaning the debris until I finally found an orange object," he said, standing on the deck of a ship alongside of his diving companion.

The Boeing 737 MAX 8 crashed Monday morning, minutes after taking off from Jakarta, the Indonesian capital.

By the end of the day on Wednesday, 56 body bags containing human remains had been sent to a Jakarta hospital for identification with the help of DNA samples provided by family members, have announced officials.

This is the worst air disaster Indonesia has seen in more than two decades and raises new concerns about the security of its burgeoning aviation sector, which has recently been removed from the European Union and the United States.

The aircraft found by the divers is the flight data recorder and search for the cockpit voice recorder continues, said Minister of Transport Budi Karya Sumadi at a press conference .

It was found about 500 meters northwest coordinates where the plane lost contact and at a depth of 30 meters, said the head of the search and rescue agency Muhammad Syaugi.

Navy Colonel Monang Sitompul told local television that what is believed to be the fuselage of the plane had also been seen on the seabed.

The data from the flight tracking sites show that the aircraft had an erratic speed and altitude in the first minutes of a flight on Sunday and during his fatal flight on Monday. Security experts however warn that the accuracy of the data needs to be checked against the flight data recorder.

Several passengers flying Sunday between Bali and Jakarta have reported problems such as delayed takeoff of an engine control and terrifying descents during the first 10 minutes of flight.

Lion Air ordered 50 MAX 8 aircraft and one of its subsidiaries was the first to operate the new generation jet last year.

Investigators say that a preliminary report on the accident could be released within a month, but that full findings will take several months.

The Lion Air crash is the biggest air disaster in Indonesia since 1997, when 234 people died in a Garuda flight near Medan. In December 2014, an AirAsia flight from Surabaya to Singapore sank into the sea, leaving 162 people dead.

Indonesian carriers were banned from traveling to Europe in 2007 for security reasons, but several were allowed to resume their services in the next decade. The ban was completely lifted in June. The United States lifted a 10-year ban in 2016.

Lion Air, a discount carrier, is one of the youngest and largest airlines in Indonesia serving dozens of domestic and international destinations. It has developed aggressively in Southeast Asia, a rapidly growing region of over 600 million inhabitants.