Officials are investigating whether a piece of metal debris that was found on the coast of African nation Mozambique is that of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 that vanished from radar almost two years ago.

Citing sources close to the investigation, NBC News reported the piece of debris was found on a sandbank in the Mozambique Channel, the section of the Indian Ocean that flows between Madagascar and Mozambique.

NBC reported that investigators in Malaysia, Australia and the U.S. have examined photos of the possible debris and a source close to the investigation told the news station that it could be a horizontal stabilizer from a Boeing 777.

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A U.S. official close to the investigation told CBS News that the debris is a "fixed leading edge, right hand horizontal stabilizer," which is found in the tail section of a plane.

Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 disappeared on March 8, 2014 with 239 people on board.

The jetliner veered sharply off course and flew for hours with its communications systems disabled before disappearing.

In this photo dated Wednesday, July 29, 2015, French police officers inspect a piece of debris from a plane in Saint-Andre, Reunion Island.

In this photo dated Wednesday, July 29, 2015, French police officers inspect a piece of debris from a plane in Saint-Andre, Reunion Island.

Several ships scoured more than 60,000-square-kilometres of the Indian Ocean, about 1,800 kilometres west of Australia.

Last summer, the only confirmed piece of MH370 debris was found on Reunion Island, off the coast of Madagascar.

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In July, island workers found a piece of an airplane wing, known as a flaperon, measuring about two metres long by one metre wide.

Officials later confirmed the flaperon was from the missing MH370 jetliner.