article_snippet: That's the message out of Indonesia, where national search and rescue chief Bambang Soelistyo announced that the main search-and-recovery operation surrounding doomed commercial airliner AirAsia Flight 8501 officially ended Tuesday.
article_snippet: These past two months have been the hardest times for all of us at AirAsia and for the families of Flight QZ8501 passengers," AirAsia Indonesia CEO Sunu Widyatmoko said.
article_snippet: " " AirAsia Indonesia CEO Sunu Widyatmoko was referring to the nightmare that the airline and, especially, the loved ones of the 162 people on board the Airbus A320-200 jet have been experiencing since Airbus A320- crew lost contact with air traffic controllers on December 28.
article_snippet: Indonesian Transportation Minister Ignasius Jonan later explained the plane climbed rapidly, then stalled shortly before Indonesian Transportation Minister Ignasius Jonan crashed.
article_snippet: Unlike Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, which disappeared a year ago and still hasn't been located, there has been less mystery and more closure over Flight QZ8501.
article_snippet: That's because searchers did find remnants from the AirAsia aircraft and the remains of some passengers in the Java Sea.
article_snippet: That included the jetliner's fuselage, the last major piece of which was recovered late last month and brought into a Jakarta port earlier this week.
article_snippet: As of Tuesday, authorities had identified the bodies of 94 who had been on the plane, with six other bodies still in Surabaya's Bhayangkara Hospital.
highlights_snippet: Flight QZ8501 went down in December with 162 on board; 100 bodies have been recovered so far .
  
highlights_snippet: Indonesia's search and rescue chief says Flight QZ8501 is moving into a new phase .
  