More bodies from Air France jet found

Brazilian and French search crews retrieved fifteen more bodies from Air France flight 447 on Sunday. They also spotted other corpses and found a large amount of debris with the Air France logo.

Brazilian and French search crews retrieved fifteen more bodies from Air France flight 447 on Sunday.

Twelve Brazilian planes, two French planes, one French ship and five Brazilian navy ships conducted a grid search of the area about 1,100 kilometers northeast of Brazil's coast on Sunday.

By Sunday night, 15 more bodies had been found. This brought the total number of bodies found from the crashed Air France A330 to 17. The first two bodies were recovered on Saturday.

Out of the 15 new found bodies, the Brazilian authorities has confirmed that four are men and four are women.

Air Force Colonel Henry Munhoz said during a news conference on Sunday he could not immediately provide information on how many more bodies were spotted from the air.

Henry Munhoz, Brazilian Air Force Spokesperson, said, "All the pieces and bodies that we are finding, were part of the Air France 447 flight - that is no longer in doubt. The bodies are of those people who were on that flight."

Flight 447 disappeared and likely broke up in midair in turbulent weather on May 31st during a flight from Rio de Janeiro to Paris with 228 people aboard - all now presumed dead.

Authorities also say searchers spotted two airplane seats, oxygen masks and other debris with Air France's logo.

Bodies and plane wreckage were being transported by ship and should arrive on Monday at Brazilian islands of Fernando de Noronha, where the military has set up a staging post for the search operation.

France has also sent a nuclear-powered submarine that should arrive on Wednesday to search for the black box flight data recorders that will be crucial to understanding why the plane fell from the sky.