JAKARTA, Indonesia — Indonesia’s armed forces on Tuesday officially halted the search for victims from the AirAsia plane that crashed into the Java Sea last month, killing all 162 people aboard.
A civilian agency will not abandon its search for victims, but the military has been the mainstay of the operation.
A total of 92 people remain unaccounted for since the plane, an Airbus A320-200 flying as Flight 8501, crashed on Dec. 28 less than an hour after taking off from the Indonesian city of Surabaya, bound for Singapore.
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His statements fueled speculation that the plane stalled and fell from the sky as its pilots tried to get above the bad weather.
The voice cockpit recorder picked up warning sirens during the flight’s final minutes, Reuters has reported.
Indonesia’s National Transportation Safety Committee is evaluating data from the black boxes and is finalizing a preliminary report, but it will not be made public, officials have said.
