Officials affirm that the MH370 debris discovered on a beach in Madagascar is "most likely" from the downed Malaysia Airlines plane, giving relatives new hope.

AIRCRAFT debris found in Madagascar last year is “most likely” from the doomed Malaysian Airlines jet, officials have confirmed.

Flight MH370 was on its way from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing on March 8, 2014, with 239 people on board, when it vanished, and became one of the world’s greatest aviation mysteries.

Grace Subathirai Nathan (left), daughter of MH370 passenger Anne Daisy and Jacquita Gonzales, (right) the wife of Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 steward Patrick Gomes, show pieces of debris found on a beach in Madagascar before handing them over to Malaysia Transport Minister Anthony Loke in Putrajaya on November 30, 2018Credit: AFP or licensors

The five pieces of debris found by villagers in Madagascar were handed to the Malaysian government in late November by wreck hunter Blaine Gibson and some relatives of those who died in the disaster.

A report from the MH370 Safety Investigation Team found most of the debris was from an aircraft and the panel belonged to a Boeing 777, “most likely MH370”.

The floor panel debris contained the letters and numbers WPPS61 on the corner.

Don Thompson, one of the Independent Group investigating the jet’s disappearance, was then able to work out the full code was BAC27WPPS61.

This was similar to a floorboard label found among the wreckage of the doomed aircraft, the West Australian reported.

Malaysian authorities confirmed the analysis.

Ms Nathan points to a label that she says is still readable on a piece of debris - a report from the MH370 Safety Investigation Team found it was 'most likely from MH370' — Ms Nathan points to a label that she says is still readable on a piece of debris – a report from the MH370 Safety Investigation Team found it was ‘most likely from MH370’Credit: AFP or licensors

Ms Gonzales holds up another piece of a plane, said to be part of the missing MH370Credit: Reuters

Five pieces were recovered in total after being washed up from the Indian OceanCredit: EPA

Flight MH370 was flying to Beijing from Kuala Lumpur when it disappeared on March 8, 2014.

It is believed to have plunged into the southern Indian Ocean.

In July last year, investigators released a 495-page report, saying the plane’s controls were likely deliberately manipulated to take it off course but they were not able to determine who was responsible.

Officers carrying a flaperon from an aircraft apparently washed ashore in Saint-Andre de la Reunion, eastern La Reunion island, France, in 2015Credit: EPA

Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 went missing on March 8, 2014, with 239 passengers and crew on boardCredit: Alamy

More than 30 bits of suspected debris have collected from various places around the world but only three wing fragments, which washed up along the Indian Ocean coast, have been confirmed to be from MH370.

An official search ended last May but Malaysia’s Transport Minister Anthony Loke said the government would consider resuming a search if provided with credible leads.

V.R. Nathan, whose wife Anne Daisy was on the doomed jet, said: “We want the government to continue searching for these debris and piece them together like a jigsaw puzzle so that we can get some clue as to what happened to the plane.”

His daughter Grace added: “The fact that debris is still washing up now means that the investigation should still be live.

“It shouldn’t be closed.”