Malaysia has received the piece of debris found on a sandbank off Mozambique which will be analysed to determine if it belongs to the Malaysia Airlines aircraft that went missing with 239 people on board on March 8, 2014.
Malaysia's Minister of Transport Liow Tiong Lai says the triangular-shaped piece has the words "No Step" written on it.
"We will send it to Australia for further examinations," Liow said on Thursday, according to local daily The Star.
The Beijing-bound flight MH370 disappeared on March 8, 2014 with 239 people aboard, 40 minutes after taking off from Kuala Lumpur.
The passengers included 153 Chinese, 50 Malaysians, seven Indonesians, six Australians, five Indians, four French, three Americans, two Canadians, Iranians, New Zealanders and Ukrainians, and a Dutch, Russian and Taiwanese, and the crew.
According to the official investigation, someone turned off the communication systems of the aircraft that later crashed in a remote region of the Indian Ocean, after running out of fuel.
Australia, Malaysia and China are still searching for the plane in an area of 120,000 square kilometres situated about 1700km west of the Western Australia coast.
To date, nothing has been found in that area, but three pieces were recovered off the eastern coast of Africa, two on the French island of Reunion and another in Mozambique.
The first object found in Reunion island last year turned out to be a wing piece of MH370.
The other two parts discovered this year have yet to be analysed.
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