AirAsia families accept 'sad reality' as search ends

Jakarta

AN Indonesian whose daughter-in-law is among the 56 people unaccounted for following the December crash of an AirAsia plane said on Wednesday that his family had accepted the "sad reality" that her body would never be found.

Rescuers called off the hunt for the remaining passengers on Tuesday, almost three months after Flight QZ8501 went down in stormy weather as it flew from the Indonesian city of Surabaya to Singapore, killing all 162 people on board.