"We have a body ... no body is still in the parts that have been found," said Minister for Ecology Nathalie Kosciusko-Morizet Radio France Monday.
Air accident investigators have not confirmed that the bodies were found, but the head of the agency investigating the accident said Monday he believes the main part of the wreckage had been found.
"Looks like we have found the wreckage site. Until now we only found some debris floating on the surface elements," said Jean-Paul Troadec, head of the French Bureau d'Enquêtes et d'Analysis (BEA), Radio France program is different.
Researchers said on Sunday that they had found pieces of the Air France jet that crashed in the Atlantic Ocean in 2009.
Air France Flight 447 disappeared after taking off from Rio de Janeiro on his way to Paris.
BEA said Sunday that the team - led by the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution - part of the plane was found in an underwater search operation conducted in the last 24 hours.
The agency did not immediately say what part of the team jet was found.
Investigators have not yet determined what caused the crash, and most of the aircraft - including the flight recorder - has never been found, despite extensive search operation which include French naval submarine.
Air France plane went down in storm weather, and most of the bodies were never recovered.
Studies from the rubble and the bodies found led BEA to conclude the plane hit the water belly first, basically intact. Oxygen masks are not deployed, indicating that the cabin did not depressurize, BEA said in a report in 2009.
automated message sent from a plane in the minutes before the accident showed no problems of air velocity measurements, the researchers say, although they said that was not enough to cause disaster.
The area where the plane went down deep in the Atlantic - two to four days for ships to reach the nearest port in Brazil or Senegal in west Africa. Rough terrain under the sea with mountains and valleys under water, the BEA said.
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