Indonesia calls off search for remaining AirAsia victims

March 18, 2015 03:25 pm | Updated November 16, 2021 05:13 pm IST - JAKARTA

Officials examine the newly-recovered remains of the fuselage of the AirAsia Flight 8501 at Tanjung Priok port in Jakarta.

Officials examine the newly-recovered remains of the fuselage of the AirAsia Flight 8501 at Tanjung Priok port in Jakarta.

Indonesia has called off the search for the remaining victims of the AirAsia plane crash in the Java Sea.

All 162 people aboard Airbus A320-200 died when it went down on December 28 while flying from Surabaya to Singapore. So far, 106 bodies have been recovered, the last three last week from the underwater wreckage.

The operations director of the National Search and Rescue Agency, Tatang Zaenudin, said that the final retrieval operations ended on Tuesday night.

The main search and rescue operation had been called off March 3, but small-scale efforts continued for another two weeks at the request of the victims’ families.

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