PANGKALAN BUN, Indonesia: Indonesian divers Thursday failed to reach the drowned main body of an AirAsia jet that crashed last month, as bad weather and rough seas hampered efforts to reach the remaining victims’ bodies.

Flight QZ8501 went down on Dec. 28 in stormy weather during what was supposed to be a short trip from the Indonesian city of Surabaya to Singapore, with 162 people on board.

After a lengthy search, a Singapore military vessel spotted the fuselage — the main trunk of the plane — at the bottom of the Java Sea on Wednesday.

So far just 50 bodies have been recovered, but authorities hope the main section will contain most of the bodies of passengers and crew.

Underwater photos taken by high-tech search equipment showed the fuselage and part of Malaysia-based AirAsia’s motto — “Now Everyone Can Fly” — painted on the plane’s exterior.

Divers tried to reach the wreckage in the morning and again in the afternoon, but did not succeeded in getting close enough to the fuselage, which is about 30 meters (100 feet) under water, to make an initial assessment.

“Our diving operation was hampered by bad weather,” search and rescue agency official S.B Supriyadi told AFP.

“It was raining heavily, there were high waves, the visibility under water was less than two meters and there were strong currents.”

Divers will go down again early on Friday, he added.