Singapore: Day after retrieving the cockpit voice recorder of the ill-fated AirAsia jet that crashed in the Java Sea, the multi-national search and rescue team today continued to scour the waters, even as Indonesian authorities moved closer to determine the sequence of events that brought the flight down.

Malaysia's Chief of Navy, Abdul Aziz Jaafar in a Twitter post this morning said, "#QZ8501 Day 18. Search continues with 23 ships as assigned. Foreign warships on standby." A multi-national search and rescue (SAR) team is supporting the Indonesian efforts to evacuate bodies and debris from the doomed AirAsia flight which plunged into the Java Sea with 162 passengers and crew onboard on December 28.