French authorities have launched a hunt for more wreckage from the ill-fated Malaysia Airlines (MAS) flight MH370 off Reunion island Friday, the Agence France-Presse ( AFP ) reported.

The news agency reported that the search was also being carried out by the Mauritius authorities for any possible plane parts that may have landed on their shores.

AFP quoted the top government official in Reunion island, Dominique Sorain, as saying: "A military transport plane was patrolling the seas off the coast and a ship had also departed before being forced to return due to bad weather".

Sorain said that helicopters would also be used, as would soldiers and policemen who would patrol the eastern part of the island where the flaperon was discovered.  

"This... will last a week, after which we will draw our first conclusions," Sorain said, according to AFP .

Early yesterday morning, Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak announced that the flaperon found on the French Reunion Island was from Flight MH370.

It was reported that a maintenance record seal on the flaperon provided the conclusive proof that the part was from the Beijing-bound MH370.

Flight MH370 from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing disappeared from the radar on March 8, 2014, with 239 passengers and crew.

- Bernama