Days after finding airplane debris near the island of Réunion, Australian officials are confident this object is a part of missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370.

According to CNN, Australian officials are growing more confident the debris found near the island is part of the doomed flight. Martin Dolan, the head of the Australian agency that is coordinating the underwater search for the plane, stated, "I'm increasingly confident but not yet certain."

A preliminary report from a French lab is expected to come next week. Officials stated that the debris found belongs to a Boeing 777, the same type of plane as Flight 370. 

Not everyone is as confident this piece came from the missing plane. According to The New York Times, some experts believe the debris may not explain the mysterious fate of the lost plane. Oceanographer David L. Mearns said that the debris found could have made it all the way to Réunion on ocean currents, but that it may not be from Flight 370.

"It's certainly feasible that wreckage could have made it all the way to La Réunion island," Mearns said. "[But] it's just not possible to backtrack it, or calculate a plunge point with any level of precision that would be useful."

According to Yahoo News, Johnny Begue, the man who found the airplane debris, said he was looking for stones when he stumbled upon a strange looking object.

Begue said, "I asked my friend to come help pick it up. First we thought that we'd use it as a piece of decoration and then we thought because it's a piece of plane, we should probably call the police."

Begue also stated he felt that it was God that sent him to find the object.   

On March 8, 2014, Flight 370 disappeared without a trace with 239 passengers and crew members on board. There have been many theories about the fate of the plane, with speculation ranging from a landing at Diego Garcia to a hijacking.