AirAsia QZ8501: Indonesian military calls off wreckage recovery


A file picture fo the balloons used to float the Indonesia AirAsia QZ5801 fuselage. - EPA.

PANGKALAN BUN: The Indonesian military on Tuesday called off efforts to recover the wreckage of an Indonesia AirAsia plane that crashed into the Java Sea last month, after failing to find any more bodies inside the fuselage. 

Flight QZ8501 went down on Dec 28 in stormy weather with 162 people on board, during what was supposed to be a short trip from the Indonesian city of Surabaya to Singapore.      

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