KUALA LUMPUR: MH370 investigators will only be able to inspect the Reunion Island plane debris after this Monday, the Transport Ministry said.

Deputy Minister Datuk Abdul Aziz Kaprawi said this was because Malaysian authorities had to attend a meeting with the French Government before they could actually see the debris.

"This Monday, the French Government has called our team to have a discussion (on that day) and from that we will know the way forward to do verification.

""It's under custody of the French Government...It's considered a formality and we have to succumb to the rules and laws in France," he told reporters here Saturday.

He said he was informed that only Malaysia, France and plane manufacturer Boeing would inspect the debris at this point.

"Other agencies involved...I don't know," he said.

Aziz said MAS confirmed to him Friday that the flaperon was from a Boeing 777, though it did not mean that it was from MH370.

The airplane part was found washed ashore Reunion Island earlier this week, prompting speculation that it was from the plane.

Media reports have said that the debris had been flown from Réunion Island Friday night and is expected to have landed in France this morning.

Aziz also indicated that the debris would be held by the French Government in Toulouse until it was ready for inspection.

Reunion Island is a French island with a population of about 800000 located in the Indian Ocean, east of Madagascar.

Flight MH370 with 239 people on board disappeared en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing on March 8 last year. It is believed to have ended in the southern Indian Ocean.