Suitcase found near possible MH370 debris

Air crash investigators will examine a suitcase that washed up on a tiny Indian Ocean island near plane wreckage believed to possibly have come from the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370.

Deputy Prime Minister Warren Truss says the suitcase was handed to police on Reunion and investigators have made arrangements to retrieve it.

"It may just be rubbish and there is no attached marine life to indicate that it's been in the water for any great time, but it will be examined," he told AAP in a statement.