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Wednesday 28 Jan 2015 - 12:06 Makkah mean time-8-4-1436  Jakarta, (IINA) - Indonesian military said Tuesday that it was halting its efforts to recover the remains of AirAsia Flight QZ8501 almost a month after the commercial jet crashed into the sea, CNN reported.
The chief of the Indonesian armed forces Gen. Moeldoko ordered on Tuesday the military teams involved in the operation to pull out, said military spokesman Manahan Simorangkir.
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 CNN.
The military provided the majority of personnel and hardware involved in the recovery operation, which was hindered by bad weather and technical problems.
"We are really disappointed," Imam Sampurno, whose four family members who were on the plane still haven't been found, according to the military's announcement. "We really hope the evacuation process is still going."
Flight QZ8501 went down on December 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.
An effort to lift a smaller piece of wreckage was also unsuccessful, the military said.
SM/IINA
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