Suspected debris from missing flight MH370 found by holidaymakers after being washed up on island east of Mauritius

Debris believed to have come from missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 has washed up on an island east of Mauritius.

Guests staying at a hotel on Rodrigues Island found what is thought to be wreckage from the plane that disappeared two years ago with 239 people on board while flying from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing.

The discovery comes after the Australian government confirmed debris found on a Mozambique beach is 'highly likely' to have come from the missing flight.

Debris: Guests staying at a hotel on Rodrigues Island found what is thought to be wreckage from the plane

Wreckage: A member of staff at Mourouk Ebony Hotel, said hotel guests found the debris on the beach

The debris is believed to have come from the plane that disappeared two years ago with 239 people on board

Jean Josie Milazare, who works at Mourouk Ebony Hotel on the island, told CNN that guests Jean Dominique and Suzy Vitry, from France's Reunion Island, found the debris on the beach. It has now been handed over to police.

Just last week, Australian Transport Minister Darren Chester confirmed two pieces of debris on a Mozambique beach were consistent with panels from a Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777 aircraft.

'The analysis has concluded the debris is almost certainly from MH370,' Mr Chester said.  

Mr Chester said the location of the debris on the east coast of Africa was consistent with drift modelling performed by the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation and affirmed search efforts being conducted in the southern Indian Ocean.

The two pieces of debris were discovered in Mozambique by South African teen Liam Lotter and American Blaine Gibson.

Mr Lotter, 18, found the piece of debris on a beach in Mozambique while on holiday in December.

East of Mauritius: Hotel guests staying on Rodrigues Island found what is thought to be debris from the plane

Jean Josie Milazare, who works at Mourouk Ebony Hotel (pictured), said hotel guests found the debris

They family took it home to South Africa and only realised the significance of their find after another piece of debris was found by Mr Gibson on a sandbank off Mozambique about three months later.

And last week, an archaeologist found a piece of debris stamped with a Rolls Royce logo on a beach on South Africa's southern coast.

Malaysia's transport minister said authorities will examine the object to see if it is from the plane.

'Based on early reports, there is a possibility of the piece originating from an inlet cowling of an aircraft engine,' said Malaysian Transport Minister Liow Tiong Lai, adding further examination and analysis was needed.  

Neels Kruger was walking along a lagoon on March 28 near the town of Mossel Bay on South Africa's southern coast when he spotted something that did not seem to suit the natural surroundings.

'Being an archaeologist I'm always looking for things with my nose to the ground,' said the 35-year-old.

He recognised the brown honeycomb structure from photos of other pieces of debris believed to be part of the missing aircraft.

The Australian government has confirmed debris found in Mozambique by Liam Lotter (pictured) and American man Blaine Gibson is 'highly likely' to be from Malaysian Airlines flight MH370

Discovery: The Lotter family came forward three months after finding it on holiday in Mozambique

'When I flipped it around, I didn't know immediately what it was but just thought, "Oh my word!" he said.

On the other side, Kruger said he recognised what remained of a black Rolls Royce logo, the manufacturer of aircraft engines.

The piece is about 70 centimetres by 70 centimetres 'with chunks gone from the side', said Kruger.

The white surface, with the partial logo, has peeled away to reveal a dark metallic grey covering.

Mr Kruger took photos and sent them to a friend who is a pilot, who passed it on to other pilots. They quickly became convinced this was part of an plane's engine.

Mr Kruger alerted the South African Civil Aviation Authority, who told him to sit tight until further instruction.

Wondering what to do next, he sent a message via Facebook to Mr Lotter, the South African teenager. 

Mr Lotter gave him the contact details of the Australian authorities tasked with leading the investigation into the missing plane.

Another piece of debris, which is suspected to be from MH370, was found by Neels Kruger in South Africa

Neels Kruger was walking along a lagoon on March 28 near the town of Mossel Bay on South Africa's southern coast when he spotted something that did not seem to suit the natural surroundings

'They said it was a very interesting piece and they need it sent to them,' said Kruger, adding that the Australian aviation authorities would not confirm if it was a piece of the missing plane.

Kruger was instructed to bubble-wrap the piece and keep it safe until aviation authorities collect it.

The disappearance of the Malaysia Airlines jet remains one of the biggest mysteries in modern aviation. 

A piece from one of the plane's wings was found washed ashore on Reunion Island last July.

Flight 370 disappeared on March 8 2014 and is believed to have crashed somewhere in a remote stretch of the southern Indian Ocean about 3,700 miles east of Mozambique.

An Australian-led underwater search in the southern Indian Ocean, where the plane is believed to have crashed, has found no trace of it so far. 

Authorities had predicted that any debris from the plane that isn't on the ocean floor would eventually be carried by currents to the east coast of Africa. 

Given the vast distances involved, the variability of winds and the time that has elapsed, it is impossible for experts to retrace the parts' path back to where they first entered the water. And chances the debris itself could offer any fresh clues into precisely where the plane crashed are slim.

This piece of aircraft wing was found washed ashore on Reunion Island, a French enclave located on the east coast of Africa, in July 2015

Authorities believe the wing came from the plane, though it has not shed any light on why the plane went down

What investigators really need to find is the main underwater wreckage, which would hold the plane's coveted flight data recorders, or black boxes. 

The data recorder should reveal details related to the plane's controls, including whether aircraft systems that might have helped track the plane were deliberately turned off, as some investigators believe.

But prospects for finding the debris field are running thin. Crews have already covered more than 70 per cent of the search zone, and expect to complete their sweep of the area by the end of June. No trace of the underwater wreckage has been found.