PARIS — As a detachment of French soldiers reached the crash site of an Air Algérie jetliner in Mali, officials in Paris said on Friday that the accident was most likely weather-related and that the distribution of the wreckage over a limited area suggested that the plane probably hit the ground intact.

“We rule out — and have from the start — any ground strike,” Frédéric Cuvillier, the French junior minister for transport, told France 2 television on Friday. President François Hollande of France said that the “black box” data recorder had been found at the crash site and confirmed that there were no survivors.

Speaking to reporters on Friday, Mr. Hollande said that the number of people who died in the crash was 118, two more than the government and airline officials said on Thursday.