KUALA LUMPUR, July 30 — For Australian Danica Weeks, wife of a passenger on Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370, news of debris linked to the missing plane has brought back the emotions from when the aircraft vanished on March 8, 2014.

With authorities now verifying if the debris said to be a plane’s flaperon found on the French island of La Reunion is from MH370, Weeks is, however, attempting to remain calm until the discovery is confirmed.

“It's reliving it again from Day One. More so now we've been living this surreal life not knowing if they're dead or alive,” she said in an interview with UK newspaper, The Daily Mail.

“I'm trying not to jump the gun emotionally on it. I want to solve it but you still have to hope they're out there somewhere and be brought home.”

Describing the discovery of the two-metre long wreckage as a double-edged sword, she said confirmation that it was from MH370 would give the family members closure, but would also mean that all those on board did not survive.

“On one side you still have minute hope they may be coming home which you hold onto with no evidence,” she said.

“On the other side, if it's a piece of a plane we might be able to solve the mystery and bring him home and do what's right for him.”

A two-metre long piece of debris was sighted on the Reunion Island off the east coast of Africa and had been linked to MH370, which went missing while en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing on March 8 last year.

Transport Minister Datuk Seri Liow Tiong Lai this morning said that a Malaysian team has been sent to determine whether the washed-up debris may be from the missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 that is believed to have crashed in the Indian Ocean last year.

Australian authorities said the location was consistent with the modelling of the missing plane’s location, but a French aviation expert has said the part was more likely from a small aircraft rather than a Boeing 777 jetliner.