More bodies found in Air France crash

By Fernando Exman and Tim Hepher

RECIFE, Brazil/PARIS (Reuters) - Search crews retrieved four more bodies from a crashed Air France jet on Sunday, spotted other corpses and found a large amount of debris from the plane that plunged into the Atlantic ocean.

Six bodies have now been recovered from the plane, following the discovery of two unidentified males on Saturday, five days after the Airbus A330 crashed on its way from Rio de Janeiro to Paris killing all 228 people on board.

Investigators are considering the possibility that the speed sensors on Flight 447 may have iced up, and Air France said late on Saturday it was accelerating the replacement of speed sensors on all its Airbus long-haul planes.

Brazil's navy said on Sunday it had retrieved three more bodies and France said a helicopter operating from one of its naval frigates had recovered another body from the world's worst air disaster since 2001.

"Hundreds of items are being found and being stored until we know where they should go," Brazilian Air Force spokesman Henry Munhoz told reporters in the northeastern city of Recife, where the bodies and debris will eventually be brought.

Several other corpses spotted on Sunday by Brazilian Air Force planes are expected to be picked up later in the day, search officials said.

Brazilian network Globo reported on its website that a refrigerated truck used to store corpses was waiting on the islands of Fernando de Noronha, 230 miles (370 km) off the coast of Brazil.

Twelve Brazilian planes, one equipped with radar equipment that can detect material in the water, two French planes, one French ship and five Brazilian navy ships are searching the area about 680 miles (1,100 km) northeast of Brazil's coast.