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.

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.