Military gives up trying to lift Flight QZ8501 fuselage from the Java Sea


Limited success: A file photo showing some wreckage from Flight QZ8501 being lifted into a ship at sea south of Borneo island.

PANGKALAN BUN (Indonesia): The Indonesian military has 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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