PANGKALAN BUN, Indonesia — Bloated bodies and debris seen floating in Indonesian waters today painfully ended the mystery of AirAsia Flight 8501, which crashed into the Java Sea with 162 people aboard and took more than two days to find, despite a massive international search.

The low-cost carrier’s plane vanished Sunday halfway through a two-hour flight between Surabaya, Indonesia, and Singapore after encountering storm clouds.

With crews in dozens of planes, helicopters and ships looking for the aircraft, searchers today discovered what appeared to be a life jacket and an emergency exit door. Part of the plane’s interior, including an oxygen tank, was brought to the nearest town, Pangkalan Bun, along with a bright blue plastic suitcase that appeared to be in perfect condition.

First Adm. Sigit Setiayanta, Naval Aviation Center commander at Surabaya Air Force base, told reporters six corpses were spotted off Borneo island and about 10 miles from the plane’s last known coordinates. The bodies and wreckage were found about 100 miles from land.