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Which left here surabaya on the 28th of december heading toward singapore. 42 minutes into the flight it appears it hit bad weather and then disappeared into the bottom of the java sea. now you mentioned those three bodies located this afternoon. that takes the number retrieved to 37. 13 have now been identified. those three bodies based in coffins. they are now en route to surabaya. they will go through the identification unit to try to identify the people. the problem is this is now up to day nine of the recovery operation which means the bodies in the water are decomposing at a very rapid r...

>> reporter: we just heard they located another three bodies the bodies of two men and one woman. they've since been retrieved and taken to the hospital where they will be prepared and then brought here on the 90-minute flight to surabaya taken then to the hospital to work with the disaster victim's identification unit where they hope to obviously identify those remains. so that now takes up the number of bodies found to 37 of which 9 have now been identified. now, the team that is trying to identify those remains so that the families can then go ahead and bury their loved ones they are really...

Identification unit is if the fingerprints is till intact and they'll be able to identify those victims within minutes. if they're going to have to resort to teeth and bones then that could take up to three weeks before the families find out if that person is their loved one. >> just another horrific part of this horrific story for these families that sit and wait. what about these -- the plan to let them go over the search zone. when will you find out there how many families would like to do that? >> reporter: yeah that was very interesting that the head of the military or the army i should s...