It was stopping its efforts to recover the remains of AirAsia Flight QZ8501 almost a month after the commercial jet crashed into the sea The Indonesian military said. Indonesia's search and rescue agency, Basarnas, will continue its work to try to retrieve bodies from the wreckage site in the Java Sea, a civilian source close to the search and rescue operations told media. The military provided the majority of personnel and hardware involved in the recovery operation, which was hindered by bad weather and technical problems. Flight QZ8501 went down Dec 28 as it flew from the Indonesian city of Surabaya toward Singapore with 162 people on board. So far, searchers have managed to recover 70 bodies from the sea, leaving 92 still unaccounted for. Over the weekend, navy divers tried to lift part of the fuselage of the plane using wire ropes and giant balloons. But the attempts failed after lines attached to the wreckage broke. The chief of the Indonesian armed forces, Gen Moeldoko, on Tuesday ordered the military teams involved in the operation to pull out, said military spokesman Manahan Simorangkir.
