One of the black box flight recorders from the Yemenia jet which crashed off the Comoros has been located.
A French government spokesman said efforts to retrieve it will begin today.
French rescue teams have joined in the search for survivors of the crash.
However, a Red Cross spokeswoman said hopes of finding more survivors were slim, more than a day after the plane plunged into the sea while trying to land at Moroni airport in rough weather.
A French military plane, Zodiac fast boats and other equipment have arrived from the neighbouring French island, Réunion.
A French helicopter is also expected.
Yesterday, a 40m Madagascan vessel with some 30 seamen was sent to help with the search operation.
So far, a girl from the southern Comoros village of Nioumadzaha has been confirmed as the only survivor among 142 passengers and 11 crew of Flight IY 626.
14-year-old Bahia Bakari had cuts to her face and a fractured collar-bone.
Yemenia airlines said it will pay €20,000 to the families of each victim on the airliner that crashed a day earlier off the Comoros Islands carrying 153 people
