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Indonesia calls off search for remaining victims of AirAsia crash

Workers load the tail of AirAsia flight QZ8501 onto a truck at Kumai sea port, in Central Kalimantan, on February 7, 2015 before they transport it to Jakarta.  Indonesian divers found a body believed to belong to the French co-pilot of the AirAsia plane that crashed late December with 162 people on board, an official said.
Workers load the tail of AirAsia flight QZ8501 onto a truck at Kumai sea port, in Central Kalimantan, on February 7, 2015 before they transport it to Jakarta. Indonesian divers found a body believed to belong to the French co-pilot of the AirAsia plane that crashed late December with 162 people on board, an official said. YUDHA MANX/AFP/Getty Images

JAKARTA, Indonesia – 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 Dec. 28 while flying from Surabaya, Indonesia’s second-largest city, to Singapore. So far, 106 bodies have been recovered, the last three last week from the underwater wreckage.

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