Despite this, Dr Iannello said he had a feeling it did indeed come from the missing airliner but said the lack of identifying features and serial numbers would make it hard, if not impossible, to trace it back to the actual 777 it came from.

Others are more skeptical. (Xinhua/Romain Latournerie)Joao Abreu, the director of National Civil Aviation Institute of Mozambique, showed the debris to the media at a press conference held in the institute, and pointed out that the speculation about whether the wreckage is from the missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 is "premature", without any actual evidence or technical detection to prove the estimation.

Flight MH370's Boeing 777-200ER carrying 239 passengers mostly Chinese, and crew was scheduled to land in Beijing on March 8 at 6.30am before it went off radar not long after it departed from Kuala Lumpur International Airport (KLIA).

More than 42 families have already accepted compensation. He said even though the plane had not been found, the passengers and crew were presumed to be dead.

Photos of the debris appear to show the fixed leading edge of the right-hand tail section of a Boeing 777, said a USA official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he wasn't authorized to speak publicly.

The owner of the boat and Gibson found the plane part washed ashore on a sandbar.

"If it is really MH370, then we... launch a search (in the Mozambique area)", he said.

In Mozambique, officials said they were still looking into the matter.

Debris found in Thailand in mid-January turned out not to be from MH370.

A Mozambican official said the fragment was handed over to authorities by blogger Blaine Gibson, who reported finding it earlier this week.

The discovery in Mozambique of what is being investigated as possible plane debris from MH370 was predicted by an expert at the University of Western Australia (UWA).

"What went through my mind when I found it is that this is something that could be part of an airplane and could be part of that airplane".

It's not unusual for private people and companies to get involved in searches for missing planes, especially when the search has gone on for a long time.

The ships Fugro Equator and Havila Harmony continue to conduct various underwater search operations. "However one year of searching the Southern Indian ocean has failed to discover any debris".

CNN reported that the debris would be taken to Malaysia for further examination.

If confirmed to be from MH370, the debris would be only the second shred of physical evidence.

It is believed to have crashed in the Indian Ocean and an initial search of a 60,000 sq km (23,000 sq miles) area of sea floor has been extended to another 60,000 sq km.

"I'm not surprised that he pursued this mysterious disappearance of the plane", said Vladimir Gololobov, who described his friend as eccentric, bright and kind.

Families and friends of people on board MH370 are planning a day of remembrance Sunday to mark two years since the disappearance of the flight. "It has been two years and the families of victims still do not know what to believe and what not to", Shirsath rued to Mirror.

"It seems so unlikely, too, but the thing is nature works in mysterious ways", Gibson said. We, the members of Voice 370 (a group formed by families of the passengers) want solid proof and the truth.

The suit was filed on behalf of Oleg Voladymyrovych Chustrak and Sergii Grygorovych Deineka, who were two of the eight Ukrainians on board the flight.

The worldwide search effort is expected to conclude by midyear.