Gendarmes took custody of the piece of metal as part of their investigation into the disappeared Boeing 777, the news channel BFMTV said, adding that nothing indicated that it was part of an aircraft.
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According to a picture provided by a witness, the newly found wreckage was an approximate 30 by 30 cm square frame, with all the edges and corners round-shaped, Xinhua news agency reported.
Malaysia’s transport ministry said it could take until this coming Wednesday before is official confirmation the part is from flight MH370.
The plane is thought to have crashed in the Indian Ocean.
“From the part number, it is confirmed that it is from a Boeing 777 aircraft”.
A fragment of luggage that was also found in the area is being flown into France with the aircraft debris and will be sent to a unit outside Paris that specialises in DNA tests.
A source with information about the investigation in Paris told reporters that “no object or debris likely to come from a plane” had been submitted as evidence on Sunday.
However, experts have warned grieving families not to expect startling revelations from a single part.
The hunt for more wreckage from missing flight MH370 on La Reunion island has turned up no new clues with authorities saying metallic debris found by locals didn’t come from an aeroplane.
A previous piece of airplane debris, which investigators believe is a “flaperon” from the wing of a 777, was found on the island Wednesday.
Malaysian Transport Minister Liow Tiong Lai said civil aviation authorities have asked their Indian Ocean counterparts to lookout for further debris.
He said the pronouncement on the flaperon was made after a series of verification by a group of aviation authorities.
Aviation experts at a military base near Toulouse, France, have been trying to establish whether the original wreckage is from the doomed flight.
Five Indian nationals were among the 227 passengers on board the missing Beijing-bound Malaysia Airlines flight. Flight 370 disappeared on March 8, 2014; since then, there have been no definitive indications of its whereabouts.
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Investigators believe someone on board MH370 may have switched off its transponder, which allows it to be located, before flying it thousands of miles away from its intended course.
