Indonesia’s Transport Minister said this morning there was no data to support the theory that an AirAsia jet which crashed two weeks ago had exploded before hitting the water.

Earlier, it was claimed that the airliner were likely to have "experienced an explosion" before hitting the water due to a significant change in air pressure.

"My analysis is, based on the wreckage found and other findings, the plane experienced an explosion before it hit the water," an operations coordinator at the National Search and Rescue Agency told reporters.

He said the left side of the plane seemed to have disintegrated, pointing to a change in pressure that could have caused an explosion.

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