PARIS, Dec. 30 -- France has sent condolences to Indonesian authorities over the fatal crash of AirAsia plane whose wreckeage was found off Indonesia's Kalimantan, the country's Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius said Tuesday.

France's top diplomat expressed his condolences to Indonisian government and people and also his sympathy to the family of the French co-pilot Remi Plesel, one of the 162 victims.

Speaking with his Indonesian counterpart Retno Marsudi, Fabius said Paris proposed to send domestic experts to help with the investigation into crash causes, adding two national investigators from French accident investigation agency BEA flew to Jakarat on Monday to take part in the investigation.

AirAsia Indonesia is an affiliate of the Malaysian budget carrier AirAsia. Its Flight QZ8501, an Airbus A320-200, which carried 155 passengers and seven crews, lost contact with air traffic control early on Sunday during bad weather on a flight from the Indonesian city of Surabaya to Singapore.