Body of British passenger recovered from AirAsia wreckage
The body of a 48-year-old British man who died when AirAsia flight QZ8501 crashed in the Java Sea has been found.
Choi Chi-Man was travelling with his two-year-old daughter Zoe from Surabaya in Indonesia to Singapore on 28 December when the plane crashed.
According to the BBC, Mr Choi has family in Hull and was the managing director of an energy firm.
Sky News reports that he held a British passport but lived in Singapore with his family.
His wife Mei-Yi Wee and son Luca, five, had caught an earlier flight to Singapore.
In a statement, the Foreign and Commonwealth Office said: "We can confirm the identification of the British victim of Air Asia flight QZ8501, Choi Chi-Man .
"Our thoughts are with his family and we continue to provide them with support at this difficult time."
All 155 passengers and seven crew died when the flight crashed and at least 47 bodies have been recovered.
Last month, it was reported that the captain of the AirAsia flight left his seat to conduct an unorthodox procedure when his co-pilot apparently lost control of the jet.
While there was no evidence to back the claim, the maintenance problems on the flight augmentation computer (FAC) and the way the pilots reacted to them are at the heart of the investigation.
People familiar with the matter said it was the Indonesian captain Iriyanto who tried to reset the computer and pulled a circuit-breaker to cut its power, rather than his less experienced French co-pilot Remy Plesel, who was flying the plane.
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