A South African tour operator in Mozambique claims to have found a large piece of missing plane MH370.

The debris was found on a beach called Linga Linga on the eastern coast of Mozambique.

Tour operator Jean Viljoen said he had given the piece of wreckage to local police who were investigating.

“It’s kind of almost like a triangular shape,” he said.

“It probably stands about a meter wide and about, from point to point, maybe a metre long — so it’s quite big.

“It’s just the one very big piece that I’ve found so far, but I’m going to be going up and down our coastline with my boat and trying to see if there’s more.”

The Boeing 777 disappeared in March 2014, while flying to Beijing from Kuala Lumpur with 239 people on board.

In July, officials from Australia, Malaysia and China announced that the search would be suspended if the plane was not found in the current search area.

The search was expected to be completed in December, officials said at the time.

ABC