LONDON , England ( CNN ) -- Aircraft manufacturer Airbus is ready to fund a third search of the Atlantic Ocean if a second search , now under way , fails to find debris from last month 's Air France crash , the company said Friday . Investigators pore over wreckage of Air France flight 447 which crashed killing 228 people on June 1 . Airbus is discussing a payment of between 12 to 20 million euros ( $ 17-28 million ) to help pay for a third search , but it is still too early to settle on a figure , company spokesman Stefan Schaffrath said . `` We are ready to give a significant share , whatever is needed , '' he told CNN . The company is driven by the desire to understand what caused the crash of Air France Flight 447 on June 1 , he said . All 228 people aboard were killed . `` Our priority is increasing aviation safety , '' Schaffrath said . `` The aviation community can learn from an accident . '' Airbus is already helping in the second search alongside Air France and the French accident investigations agency , the BEA . French investigators began the second phase of their search for remnants of the flight Thursday , weeks after the locator beacons of the plane 's flight recorders would have stopped working . A ship arrived in the area of the Atlantic considered the most likely location of the flight data recorder and the cockpit voice recorder , according to the BEA . Using two submersible units and lateral scanning sonar , search teams will look for debris sites on the sea floor that could lead to finding the recorders , the BEA said . The locator beacons of flight data recorders and cockpit voice recorders are designed to emit acoustic beacons , or `` pings , '' for 30 days after a crash . Flight 447 went down in stormy weather during a flight from Rio de Janeiro , Brazil , to Paris , France , on the first day of June . The search for the pings ended July 10 . Investigators hope the recorders will help them determine the cause of the crash . Flight debris recovered so far is being stored in France , authorities have said . Only 51 bodies were recovered from the crash of Flight 447 , the worst accident in Air France 's 75-year history .
Aircraft manufacturer Air France Flight ready to fund second search of Atlantic . It wants to help find debris from the crash of Air France Flight 447 Thursday , weeks . All Only 51 people on board were killed ; plane 's flight recorders still missing .