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Indonesia retrieves last of crashed AirAsia jet fuselage

Indonesia retrieves last of crashed AirAsia jet fuselage

Indonesia has retrieved the final major part of the fuselage of the AirAsia jet that crashed into the Java Sea in December, killing all 162 people on board, officials said Saturday (February 28).

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By AFP

Tuesday 3 March 2015 09:42 AM


Indonesian crews and workers remove the fuselage of AirAsia QZ8501 from a vessel at the Tanjung Priok port in Jakarta on March 2, 2015. AFP Photo/Adek Berry

Indonesian crews and workers remove the fuselage of AirAsia QZ8501 from a vessel at the Tanjung Priok port in Jakarta on March 2, 2015. AFP Photo/Adek Berry

The mangled wreckage, the largest part of the plane retrieved, was pulled from the sea Friday (February 27) and loaded onto a ship, national search and rescue chief Bambang Soelistyo told AFP.

"We have retrieved on Friday the last and large part of the AirAsia fuselage with a wing still intact," Soelistyo told AFP.

No bodies were found during the course of the operation.

Soelistyo said in a press conference Saturday that authorities will decide on a final date for the salvage operation after a meeting with the victims' families scheduled for next week.

Some 103 bodies have been recovered since the plane went down in stormy weather while flying from the Indonesian city of Surabaya to Singapore, search and rescue coordinator S.B. Supriyadi told AFP.