07:47

Report released

Results of the investigation into last year’s crash of an Indonesia AirAsia passenger jet have been released at a press conference which is still going on this morning.

The Airbus A320 crashed into the Java Sea on Dec 28 last year, less than halfway into a two-hour flight from Indonesia’s second-biggest city of Surabaya to Singapore.

A total of 162 people died on the plane when it came down.

Investigators have revealed how repeated problems the rudder control system led to the pilots disengaging the autopilot in stormy weather in a bid to fix the situation.

It is thought they then lost control of the plane Indonesia’s official National Transportation Safety Committee said.

It is one of a string of aviation disasters in Southeast Asia’s biggest economy where rapid growth in air travel has overcrowded the country’s airports and raised safety concerns.

