Debris washed up over the weekend in Mozambique has been tentatively identified by experts as from the same type of aircraft as the missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370.

An official from the US said the debris appears to be the leading edge of the right-hand horizontal stabiliser of a Boeing 777 passenger aircraft.

MH370, which disappeared two years ago this month, is the only known missing aircraft of that type.

The part is being transported to Malaysia, according to the official.

Last year, wreckage was found on the remote Indian Ocean island of Reunion, where a piece of wing from the doomed airliner washed up.