JAKARTA, Indonesia — Indonesia’s armed forces on Tuesday officially halted the search for passengers on the AirAsia plane that crashed into the Java Sea last month, killing all 162 people aboard.

A civilian agency will continue searching for the bodies of victims, but the military has been the mainstay of the operation.

The plane, an Airbus A320-200 operating as Flight 8501, crashed less than an hour after taking off from the Indonesian city of Surabaya on Dec. 28. It was bound for Singapore.

Search teams have recovered 70 bodies in the Java Sea, most of which have been identified by forensic experts working in Surabaya and returned to families for burial. But 92 people remain unaccounted for.