The bodies of two men from the Air France plane that crashed in the Atlantic Ocean off Brazil have been found by search teams.
Search teams have been looking for the missing plane
Debris from the flight has also been located following days of intensive searching by air and sea.
"We confirm the recovery from the water of debris and bodies from the Air France plane," said Brazilian air force spokesman Colonel Jorge Amaral.
The Airbus jet, with 228 people on board, disappeared early on Monday as it made its way from Rio de Janiero, heading to Paris.
Investigators have been covering an area of several hundred square miles in the Atlantic.
Earlier, it was revealed the airliner sent out 24 automatic error messages in its final moments as its systems broke down one by one.
The head of the French agency probing the tragedy said signals from the jet before it disappeared showed its autopilot was not on.
Paul-Louis Arslanian said it was not clear if the autopilot had been switched off by the pilots or had stopped working because it received conflicting airspeed readings.
Brazilian navy ship joins search
Plane manufacturer Airbus said an investigation found Air France Flight 447 had inconsistent readings from different instruments as it struggled in a massive thunderstorm.
A French nuclear submarine was on its way to the search zone, 600 miles off Brazil's north-east coast, to help look for the flight's black boxes.
It is vital to locate a beacon called a "pinger" that should be attached to the cockpit voice and data recorders, now presumed to be deep in the Atlantic, Mr Arslanian said.
"We have no guarantee that the pinger is attached to the recorders," he added.
Holding up a pinger in the palm of his hand, Mr Arslanian said: "This is what we are looking for in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean."
Two more Brazilian navy vessels were set to join three others already in the area.
Some 12 Brazilian and French aircraft were also flying over the zone.
Flight path of Air France Flight 447 on 31 May/1 June. The solid red line shows actual route, the dashed line is the planned route after the last radar contact. The Brazilian Air Force has located  bodies and wreckage of  in the . At least two bodies have been recovered so far.

Brazilian Air Force Colonel Jorge Amaral confirmed that search teams had recovered 2 male bodies and wreckage including a seat, briefcase, oxygen mask, laptop computer and a ticket stub issued to a passenger from the flight. He added that experts on human remains were traveling to the recovery site to examine the findings. The 228 people on board the aircraft are presumed dead. 

Previously retrieved debris from the likely vicinity of the airplane's disappearance was yesterday revealed to actually be trash from passing ships. A wooden cargo pallet and two buoys had been recovered, but are now believed to have been from a ship.
Jorge Amaral  confirming that search team recovered 2 bodies
Air France flight 447, traveling from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil to , disappeared on June 1 over the Atlantic Ocean. The  was last heard via radio at 22:30 local time (01:30 UTC) on June 1 and vanished from radar approximately  off the Brazilian coast.

The cause of the crash is not yet known. Earlier today it was revealed by French authorities that Flight 447's plane sent 24 error messages shortly before it disappeared. They also said that the plane's auto-pilot was not active, although they say that from the error messages it is impossible to determine the reason for it being inactive. The crash is said to be the world's worst aviation disaster since 2001.