Experts: The doomed AirAsia flight soared "as fast as a fighter jet".

Crash experts have confirmed that the missing AirAsia plane soared ‘as fast as a fighter jet’ before plunging almost vertically into the Java Sea.

The experts claim that the Airbus 320-200 was caught up in weather so bad that pilots had no hope of saving the 162 people on board.

Indonesian aviation analyst Gerry Soejatman said AirAsia flight QZ8501 had behaved in ways ‘bordering on the edge of logic’ before the crash and that the plane had climbed at an extraordinary rate of 6000-9000ft per minute – which cannot be achieved through pilot action.

Instead, it has been suggested the craft was caught in a severe updraft.

Meanwhile, the body of Hayati Lutfiah Hamid has been the first to be identified by medical workers and has been handed back to her family.

The first body has been laid to rest.

So far, nine bodies have been recovered.

Officials have stated it could take up to a week to recover the craft’s black box. It is hoped the device will provide clues to what caused the disaster.

Australian aviation expert Peter Marosszeky told the Sydney Morning Herald that a ‘freak weather pattern’ was probably the cause of the crash.

Aviation expert Peter Marosszeky. Image via ABC.

AirAsia chief executive Tony Fernandes has also claimed the plane experienced ‘very unique weather’.