THE French Navy deployed a robot submarine as France and Egypt stepped up a major search to find the fuselage and flight data recorders of the aircraft that crashed into the Red Sea, killing 148 people.

Swiss aviation inspectors found faults with both airliners operated by the Egyptian airline whose Boeing crashed into the Red Sea on Saturday killing all 148 on board, it was revealed today.

Bodies recovered from an Egyptian charter plane that crashed on Saturday killing all 148 people on board bore no traces of burns indicating there was no explosion aboard the aircraft, a top French Foreign Ministry official said today.

French and Egyptian officials laid wreaths today in an area of the Red Sea where a jet crashed, killing all 148 people aboard.