Indonesian officials have just confirmed that the tail of the crashed AirAsia flight QZ8501 has been found in the Java Sea. 

On Monday, Indonesian searchers had said they may have found what could be the tail, the section where the crucial black boxes are located.

"We found what has a high probability of being the tail of the plane," Yayan Sofyan, the captain of an Indonesian patrol vessel, said.

Flight recorders are very crucial for solving the mystery of the crash of the Airbus 320-200 on December 28 in the Java Sea while flying from Surabaya to Singapore.

The development came as Indonesian navy divers took advantage of calmer waters on Monday to resume efforts to identify suspected wreckage from the jet with no signal detected yet from the black box recorders.