The funeral of the first identified victim of the AirAsia crash has taken place in Indonesia.
Local media has reported that Hayati Lutfiah Hamid was identified by her fingerprints and scars from surgery. The Jakarta Post also reports that an ID was found in her clothes.
Her funeral took place in her hometown after her body and possessions were handed over to her family in the city of Surabaya.
Her body was brought ashore on Tuesday, along with the body of a man that has yet to be identified.
BBC reports that a total of nine bodies have now been recovered. No survivors have been found.
Bad weather has continued to hamper the search for the wreck of AirAsia flight QZ8501, with officials now saying it could take a week to recover the plane's black box and voice recorder.
Rescuers have found debris including a plane door, luggage and an oxygen tank, and the plane wreckage is thought to be on the sea floor.
Sonar apparently detected a large, dark object beneath waters near where debris and bodies were found on the surface earlier this week.
A rescue pilot is also said to have spotted a large object that divers are now hoping to investigate.
AirAsia chief executive Tony Fernandes tweeted that he hopes the plane has been found.
I am hoping that the latest information is correct and aircraft has been found. Please all hope together. This is so important.
— Tony Fernandes (@tonyfernandes) January 1, 2015
Many of the dead were believed to be still inside the jet's fuselage.
Reports said radar data appeared to show the flight made an "unbelievably" steep climb before it crashed, possibly pushing it beyond the plane's limits.
A source told Reuters: "So far, the numbers taken by the radar are unbelievably high. This rate of climb is very high, too high. It appears to be beyond the performance envelope of the aircraft."
Some 36 minutes after taking off from Surabaya airport, the pilot Iriyanto asked for permission to climb to 38,000ft from 32,000ft and deviate to the left to avoid bad weather.
Two minutes later, air traffic control in Jakarta responded by asking the flight to go left seven miles and climb to 34,000ft. There was no response from the cockpit.
AirAsia is offering an immediate advance of money to loved ones of the 155 passengers, with Mr Fernandes describing the incident as a "scar (that will be) with me for the rest of my life".
About 30 ships and 21 aircraft from Indonesia, Australia, Malaysia, Singapore, South Korea and the United States have been involved in the search.
Flight QZ8501 had 162 people on board - most of them Indonesians - when it vanished on Sunday morning around 40 minutes into its two-hour flight from Surabaya to Singapore.
Originally posted at 14.28
