Aziz: It’s Jakarta’s right to end recovery mission

Going home: Indonesian rescue personnel loading a coffin bearing the body of a victim of Flight 8501 at the airport in Pangkalan Bun. — AFP

PETALING JAYA: Malaysia respects Indonesia’s decision to stop efforts to recover the remaining wreckage of an AirAsia aircraft and the remains of 92 passengers and crew who died in a crash last month.

Deputy Transport Minister Datuk Aziz Kaprawi said Indonesia, as the country leading the search, had a right to stop the recovery mission as it had gathered enough evidence to facilitate investigation.