The search and rescue efforts were being hampered by bad weather in the area, including dense fog that limited visibility, Maringa said, urging the public to be patient.
The location of the plane has become one of the world’s greatest aviation mysteries. It is believed to have gone down in the Indian Ocean.
Soldiers, family members and crew were on board when the weekly flight, from several coastal towns to Yangon, went missing.
Dogan news agency said the pilot, who crashed his plane on Sunday, had been found around 40 km from the wreckage.
A rescue team had found the crash site in the Black Sea near the coast of the Sochi, Interfax said.
Flight MH370, carrying 239 passengers and crew, disappeared on its way from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing in 2014.
Flight MS840 was in Egyptian airspace when it went off the radar with over 60 passengers on board.
An informed source at EgyptAir stated that Flight departed Paris at 23:09, has disappeared from radar.
The plane lost radio contact about 30 minutes before it was expected to land.
The plane was carrying three crew members, a doctor and two nurses as well as the patient.
The debris found is now in a French lab near Toulouse and international authorities say they're certain the piece is from the same model of aircraft as MH370.
Kompass TV showed pictures of what looked like large objects floating in the sea.
The wreckage of the Air Algerie flight AH5017 has been found in northern Mali.
An Algerian aviation official has confirmed the plane has crashed.
Chinese protesters threw water bottles at the Malaysian embassy and tried to storm the building.
China has diverted an icebreaker towards the location where the debris was spotted.
There is 'increasing hope' of a breakthrough in the hunt for a missing Malaysian airliner.
The Boeing 777 went missing almost two weeks ago off the Malaysian coast.
