JAKARTA: Warning alarms in AirAsia flight QZ8501 were "screaming" as the pilots desperately tried to stabilize the plane just before it plunged into the Java Sea last month, a crash investigator said Wednesday.

The noise of several alarms—including one that indicated the plane was stalling—can be heard going off in recordings from the black box in the Airbus A320-200's cockpit, the investigator told Agence France-Presse, requesting anonymity.

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