The aircraft door was found just a short distance from where wreckage believed to be from flight MH370 was originally discovered.
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“I could have found many things that belonged to the plane, and burned them, without realizing”, he said.
Plane debris which washed ashore on the island of Reunion has arrived in France for analysis.
A number seen on the flaperon was identified Thursday as a component number from a Boeing 777, CNN reported.
“The other part of me, I don’t want it to be true, so there is hope for good news”.
The jetliner vanished on March 8, 2014 after leaving Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, for Beijing.
A truck carrying the debris – a 2-meter-long (6.5-feet) piece of the wing known as a flaperon – left Orly, near Paris, for a French military site in Balma, in southwestern France, near Toulouse.
Shortly afterwards, another man went to the police boasting a piece of debris measuring 70 centimetres (27 inches), guessing it was part of a plane door.
Malaysian Transport Minister Liow Tiong Lai said civil aviation authorities were asking neighbors to be on the lookout for further debris. Aboard were 239 people.
It said a French judge in charge of the investigation, a representative of Malaysian judicial authorities, an expert from BEA investigation bureau and others from Malaysia and France would meet on Monday in Paris.
A shredded suitcase found lying near a piece of airline debris off the African coast earlier this week will be tested for any traces of DNA – in an effort to establish a possible link between the items and flight MH370.
Experts from various nations have teamed up to help with the probe in France.
Aeronautic experts will study deformation and damage to the debris to determine whether it was part of a plane that exploded in mid-air or came apart on impact with the ocean.
Investigators believe someone deliberately switched off MH370’s transponder before diverting it thousands of kilometres off course.
Under a microscope and expert eyes, the fragment could yield clues not just to the missing aircraft’s path through the Indian Ocean, but also to what happened to the plane.
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“Malaysia’s Department of Civil Aviation is reaching out to several aviation authorities in territories within the vicinity of Reunion Island in the Indian Ocean“, Liow said.
