Search for victims of jet crash called off

JAKARTA — Indonesian authorities Thursday ended the search for remaining victims and debris from a Sriwijaya Air jet that nosedived into the Java Sea, killing all 62 people on board.

Transportation Minister Budi Karya Sumadi said retrieval operations have ended after nearly two weeks but that a limited search for the missing memory unit from the cockpit voice recorder will continue.

The unit apparently broke away from other parts of the voice recorder during the crash. Divers retrieved its battered casing and cover last week near where the flight data recorder was recovered three days after the accident.

The Boeing 737-500 crashed Jan. 9, minutes after taking off from Jakarta, the capital of Indonesia.