Further search for plane debris resumed on Friday in French Indian Ocean island of La Reunion where a wreckage was washed up on its eastern coast two days ago, raising speculations over the fate of the mysterious missing Flight MH370.

With the aim to resolve the mystery of the disappeared Boeing 777, French authorities have mobilized significant resources to monitor and control the beach and all the objects disgorged by the sea.

A Navy ship made several patrols, while a helicopter and a plane from the Air Force conducted air reconnaissance on the discovery zone.

A wreckage was found on Wednesday off the French overseas island. Experts identified it as a part of a plane wing known as a flaperon. A day after, a luggage bearing burnt patch and bottles were found also in the area.

Local investigators were studying the debris which will be transferred later on Friday to Toulouse, southern France, to be analyzed by the General Directorate of Armaments (DGA), along with the other pieces.

Experts believed that the wreckage came from the Boeing 777, reportedly missing since 2014, arguing the code "657 BB" appearing in the debris picture corresponds to a manual code in the aircraft.

A Reunion-based expert, Estelle Crochelet used models of ocean drift calculations and found that results were perfectly concordant with the dates and locations of the alleged disappearance of flight MH 370 in March 2014.

In Australia, officials were "increasingly convinced that the debris is those of the MH370", as did Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak.

however, French authorities did not elaborate about the similarities between the debris and the missing Boeing aircraft.

In a statement issued on Thursday, La Reunion prefecture stressed that the object's origin was not identified, with "no hypothesis can not be excluded, including being from of a Boeing 777."

It decided to no longer communicate with the media and referred all inquiries to the Foreign Ministry in Paris.

France's BEA air crash investigation agency was studying the wreckage, in coordination with Malaysian and Australian experts, it added.

The flight, a Boeing 777-200, has disappeared en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing with a total of 239 passengers on board, most of them Chinese.

So far, the plane has not been found despite a massive surface and underwater hunt, which has become one of the biggest mysteries in the aviation history.

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