Indonesian officials say search teams have spotted debris at sea in the hunt for missing AirAsia Flight QZ8501.
Several objects were seen floating in the Java Sea off the Indonesian part of the island of Borneo, in one of the search zones for the plane.
Indonesian officials said the debris appeared to be from the missing aircraft.
The Airbus A320-200, carrying 162 people from Surabaya in Indonesia to Singapore, disappeared on Sunday.
The search operation is now in its third day, with the area widened to cover 13 zones over land and sea.
Indonesian civil aviation chief Djoko Murjatmodjo, quoted by AFP news agency, said "significant things" such as a passenger door and cargo door had been found.
"For the time being it can be confirmed that it's the AirAsia plane," he said.
Mr Murjatmodjo added that the objects had been found 160km (100 miles) south-west of Pangkalan Bun, a town in the Indonesian province of Central Kalimantan.
At least 30 ships, 15 aircraft and seven helicopters joined the operation when it resumed at 06:00 local time on Tuesday (23:00 GMT Monday)
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