Investigators: No sign of foul play with AirAsia 8501

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Investigators say that after conducting an initial analysis of the AirAsia Flight 8501 cockpit voice recordings, they did not find any evidence of foul play.

"There are no indications of terrorism," Nurcahyo Utomo of Indonesia's National Transport Safety Committee said. "There were no voices of other people apart from those of the pilots." Utomo did not share any details from the recordings, and said that a transcript had not yet been finished. Investigators said they will release a preliminary report about the crash on Jan. 28.

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Catherine Garcia, The Week US
Catherine Garcia, The Week US

Catherine Garcia has worked as a senior writer at The Week since 2014. Her writing and reporting have appeared in Entertainment Weekly, The New York Times, Wirecutter, NBC News and "The Book of Jezebel," among others. She's a graduate of the University of Redlands and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.