Images showing crashed AirAsia flight QZ8501

Eerie photographs have shown the wreckage of AirAsia flight QZ8501 lying on the bottom of the Java Sea. 

Images show pieces of the jet including what appears to be the tail fin showing the AirAsia logo and possibly an interior section of the cabin. Divers and an unmanned underwater vehicle spotted the missing plane's tail. It's here that also usually houses the 'black box' flight data recorders which will be crucial to determining the cause of the crash.

The haunting pictures revealed on Wednesday come as Indonesian aviation authorities denied officials took bribes to allow airlines to alter their flight schedules amid allegations some were paid to approve unscheduled take-offs, including that of crashed AirAsia flight QZ8501.

ABC News reported that Bambang Soelitsyo, the chief of Basarnas, Indonesia's search and rescue agency, confirmed that recovery teams found the tail of the plane in the Java Sea.

'We have successfully obtained part of the plane that has been our target. The tail portion has been confirmed found,' he said.  

Part of AirAsia Flight QZ 8501 that has been found on the sea floor, off Pangkalan Bun, Indonesia

The Indonesian Search And Rescue Agency found wreckage of the plane at the bottom of the Java Sea

Rescue teams found the tail of the AirAsia plane that crashed into the Java Sea with 162 people on board

The bodies of two more victims have been pulled from the sea as Indonesian officials continue the search for the AirAsia Flight QZ8501

Indonesian rescue personnel carry coffins with the remains of bodies of the recovered victims

A portrait of flight victim Jou Brian Youvito is pictured in the window of an ambulance as the family brings his body back for his funeral in Surabaya

Indonesian Red Cross officers sit near the coffins of AirAsia passengers en route from Pangkalan Bun to Surabaya on Tuesday

There has been 39 bodies recovered so far with 123 still missing after the AirAsia jet went missing over the Java Sea on December 28

Chief of Indonesia's search and rescue agency Bambang Soelitsyo shows an underwater photo of part of the aircraft's wreckage