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After spending the night on a snowy mountainside, a military recovery team Thursday suspended its effort to reach the wreckage of the A-10 Thunderbolt last seen three weeks ago.

The four-member team had been taken by helicopter to the 11,500-foot level Wednesday, but snowy weather made it impossible for them to climb the last 1,000 feet to the wreckage.

Earlier Wednesday, a man dangling from a cable retrieved pieces of the jet that vanished on a training mission that began in Arizona.

There was no sign of the pilot, Air Force Capt. Craig Button.