BOSTON (MarketWatch) -- French investigators said Sunday they have located what they believe to be the remains of an Air France-KLM airliner that crashed two years ago over the Atlantic Ocean en route from Rio de Janeiro to Paris.

While giving few details, the investigators said they have found wreckage from an Airbus 300 aircraft that they have identified as the remains of Air France AFLYY, +1.73% flight 447 in the mid-Atlantic, The Wall Street Journal reported Sunday.