Nearly a week after the Airbus A330 crashed, on its way from Rio de Janeiro to Paris killing all 228 people on board, a total of 17 bodies have been recovered, following the discovery of two unidentified males on Saturday.

Investigators are considering the possibility that the speed sensors on Flight 447 may have iced up and Air France said late on June 6 it was accelerating the replacement of speed sensors on all its Airbus long-haul planes.

Brazil's navy and air force said in a statement on June 7 night that they had retrieved seven more bodies and were transporting them along with the two corpses found on Saturday to the islands of Fernando de Noronha, 230 miles off the coast of Brazil.

Of the nine corpses, four were male and four were female, while the sex of the other body could not be identified.

A French ship picked up eight bodies on June 7, the Brazilian military said, without giving further details.

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 northeast of Brazil's coast.

France also has 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 as it passed storms on Monday.

The plane's pilots may have set the aircraft at a dangerous speed because they were relying on faulty speed readings, according to investigators.