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Divers in the Java Sea have retrieved the cockpit voice recorder from the crashed AirAsia flight QZ8501, the BBC reported, citing officials.

The retrieval comes a day after the first piece of the so-called black box, the flight data recorder, was also found and brought to shore.

The aircraft with 162 people on board disappeared between Surabaya in Indonesia and Singapore on 28 December.

The two devices will help investigators understand more about what went wrong.

Forty-eight bodies have been recovered so far, but most of the victims are believed to still be inside the fuselage, which has not been found.

Search teams had said on Monday that they had spotted what they believed was the voice recorder, trapped under layers of metal and debris on the sea floor.

Search and rescue agency chiefs would not immediately confirm the voice recorder find - a formal announcement is expected later.

But an official involved in the search told reporters the device was now on board Indonesia's Banda Aceh warship, in the Java Sea.

The BBC's Karishma Vaswani said the device - which records all conversations between the pilots - was being taken to Jakarta, where it will be analysed by aviation experts.