Could plane wreckage off Kangaroo Island be linked to MH370?

AUSTRALIAN officials are investigating whether debris found off the South Australian coast could be doomed flight MH370.

AUSTRALIAN transport officials are investigating whether debris found off the South Australian coast could be doomed Malaysia Airlines flight MH370.

The wreckage was discovered on Kangaroo Island by a man searching for driftwood on the beach yesterday afternoon.

The piece of plane, about the size of a shoebox with the words “no step” printed on it, was handed into South Australian police.

The Australian Transport Safety Bureau is now investigating the discovery, a spokeswoman told AAP. There are no early indications the wreckage could be from MH370.

The piece of debris, suspected to be from a plane, found on Kangaroo Island. Picture: Seven News

But an oceanographer who spoke to Seven News said it would well be from the doomed flight, which was believed to have gone down in the Indian Ocean en route to Beijing on March 2014.

“There is a possibility because it is sort of consistent with the drift pass ways of currents in the southern Indian Ocean,” Jochen Kaempf said.

“The timescale of two years is just right — it could happen during that timescale.”

It is also possible the plane piece could be from a missing Cessna that crashed near Kangaroo Island, killing the pilot, in 2002, Seven reported.

The debris was found washed up with driftwood on Kangaroo Island.

Malaysia Airlines flight 370 went missing on May 8, 2014, about one hour into its journey from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing, while it was flying over the South China Sea.

The Boeing 777 was carrying 12 Malaysian crew and 227 passengers, including six Australians.

Its disappearance sparked a multinational search effort and its fate has remained a mystery. Earlier this week, Australian families seeking damages from Malaysia Airlines said they had been tormented with drawn out legal action and “ridiculous” questions from lawyers working on behalf of the carrier, such as what caused the aircraft to crash, where it crashed and who was monitoring, tracking and supervising the plane.