The first bodies from the AirAsia plane crash have been flown to Indonesia to be identified as the recovery operation was suspended after bad weather.
Strong winds and currents as well as 9ft (3m) high waves stopped divers from effectively searching the site of the crash off the island of Borneo.
Rescue planes and helicopters were grounded by heavy rain and low visibility, and the poor weather conditions were expected to continue for the next two or three days.
A total of seven bodies from flight QZ8501 have been retrieved from the Java Sea since victims were first spotted on Tuesday. They included a female flight attendant in her red uniform.
One of the bodies was wearing a life jacket, suggesting the crew may have had time to prepare passengers for crashing into the sea.
The presence of fully-clothed passengers could also indicate the Airbus A320 was intact when it hit the water during a storm.
Two bodies flown on an Indonesian military plane to Surabaya - the city where the AirAsia flight departed from - were of a woman and a teenage boy.
They were taken to hospital for examination and identification. Relatives of victims have given their DNA to help identify loved ones.
The plane wreckage is thought to be on the sea floor, after sonar apparently detected a large, dark object beneath waters near where debris and bodies were found on the surface.
But AirAsia chief executive Tony Fernandes denied reports that sonar images had located the aircraft on the seabed. However he did say there was "some visual identification".
Many of the dead were believed to be still inside the jet's fuselage.
Joko Widodo, Indonesia's president, said his priority was recovering bodies from the Karimata Strait in the Java Sea, where rescuers have found debris including a plane door, luggage and an oxygen tank.
AirAsia is offering an immediate advance of money to loved ones of the 155 passengers, with Mr Fernandes describing the incident as a "scar (that will be) with me for the rest of my life".
Television bosses in Indonesia have also apologised for showing graphic pictures when the bodies were first found floating in the sea.
Relatives at Surabaya airport broke down when they images were shown, and some fainted.
The United States said its destroyer USS Sampson and combat ship USS Fort Worth were awaiting instructions from the Indonesian search command on the recovery operation.
Singapore said it was sending two underwater beacon detectors to try to pick up pings from the black boxes, which contain cockpit voice and flight data recorders.
An expert from the UK Air Accidents Investigation Branch is also travelling the scene.
About 30 ships and 21 aircraft from Indonesia, Australia, Malaysia, Singapore, South Korea and the United States have been involved in the search.
Flight QZ8501 had 162 people on board - most of them Indonesians - when it vanished on Sunday morning around 40 minutes into its two-hour flight from Surabaya to Singapore.
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