The AirAsia flight that crashed in the Java Sea, killing 162 people, climbed too fast before stalling, Indonesia's transport minister has said.
Ignasius Jonan told a parliamentary hearing in Jakarta that flight QZ8501 had ascended at a speed of 6,000ft (1,828m) per minute.
He said it was not normal for a passenger jet to climb so fast.
There were no survivors when the plane crashed on 28 December en route from Surabaya to Singapore.The Airbus A320-200 is thought to have encountered difficulties from an approaching storm.Only 53 bodies have been retrieved so far from the crash area, where debris was scattered across the sea.'Faster than a fighter'
Mr Jonan told the hearing that radar data from the moments before the plane was lost revealed its speed of ascent."It is not normal to climb like that. It's very rare for commercial planes, which normally climb just 1,000 to 2,000 feet per minute," he said.
"It can only be done by a fighter jet."
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