KUALA LUMPUR, March 2 — An object found on a sandbank off the African nation of Mozambique is being examined by aviation experts for a possible connection to the mysterious disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370, NBC News reported today.

The US broadcaster cited unnamed sources who said photographs of the object found by an American blogging about the missing plane’s search were being examined by Boeing engineers as well as investigators from Malaysia, Australia and the US.

This comes just days ahead of the two-year anniversary marking the jumbo jet’s unexplained disappearance.

The object was found in the Mozambique Channel, the same corner of the southern Indian Ocean where a flaperon was discovered last July on the French island of Réunion.

To date, the flaperon is the only piece verified to be from the missing plane. No other object from the plane has been found since then.

According to a source in the NBC report, the object has the words “NO STEP” on it and is suspected to be from the plane’s horizontal stabiliser, which is attached to a plane’s tail.

The Joint Agency Coordination Center based in Australia confirmed with NBC News that it was aware of the discovery and was arranging for a thorough examination.

There have been several red herrings in the search for the aviation world’s biggest mystery.

Debris was found on the shores of Besut, Terengganu earlier this year, however it was confirmed by Putrajaya not to be from MH370 as it did not match a Boeing 777 jet.

The flight carrying 239 passengers and crew on board disappeared while enroute to Beijing from Kuala Lumpur on March 8, 2014.

On January 29, 2015, Putrajaya declared Flight MH370 an accident under international aviation regulations, and dsaid all 239 people on board the flight are presumed dead.