The wreckage of a Chinese aircraft baffled locals when it washed up on a beach in Thailand.

The large piece of metal debris was found by police in the Pak Phanang district of Nakhon Si Thammarat province on April 27.

It spanned 10ft-long and almost 4ft-wide with visible wrinkles on the aluminum’s surface, but there was no indication which aircraft it came from.

The wreckage was taken to a villager’s home for safekeeping while waiting for experts to examine it. The unusual find had echoes of Malaysian Airlines' missing flight MH370 that went missing in 2014.

Villager Prayut Thanwattana said: ‘It looked old enough to be a piece from that mysterious plane. Whether or not it is from MH370, we want to know what it is as it was not the first time something strange washed up on our beach.’

In 2015, pieces of aircraft have also washed up on the village but they were not checked by authorities while a corpse tied up with a rope was found floating in the water earlier this week.

Others believed that the pieces belonged to a Chinese rocket operated by the China National Space Administration to send satellites into space called the ‘Chinese Long March Rocket’ based on the red paint and stars found on the debris.

Authorities were informed about the debris and would send a team to the village to check on them.