A sailor says she saw black smoke and fire over the Indian Ocean in 2014, right at the same time Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 mysteriously disappeared.
It has now been more than 4,380 days since the Boeing 777-200ER with 239 people on board Flight MH370 mysteriously vanished without a trace. Several people have come forward with what they believe to be evidence, numerous searches have been conducted, and an untold number of theories have been proposed about what exactly happened. None of that, however, has yielded any results of consequence.
A sailor claims to have seen missing Flight MH370 burning in the sky
Now, Katherine Tee, a British sailor, claims she saw the missing Malaysia Airlines plane on fire in the sky when it crashed 12 years ago. (An oil rig worker in the area made a similar claim.) The plane was just 40 minutes into its flight from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing when it disappeared from radar.
According to a new report by the Mirror, Tee says she saw a “trail of black smoke” and something “bright orange” over the Indian Ocean, which she attributed to the burning Flight MH370.
At the time of her alleged sighting, Tee says she saw MH370 while she and her husband were sailing from Cochin, India, to Phuket, Thailand. She told the Phuket Gazette that she didn’t report it right away because she felt like she “was going insane.” She also claimed that, around the same time, she noticed another aircraft in the sky and assumed that pilot would report what she saw.
“I thought I saw a burning plane cross behind our stern from port to starboard, which would have been approximately north to south,” she claims. “Since that’s not something you see every day, I questioned my mind. I was looking at what appeared to be an elongated plane glowing bright orange, with a trail of black smoke behind it.
“It did occur to me that it might be a meteorite. But I thought it was more likely that I was going insane. It caught my attention because I had never seen a plane with orange lights before so I wondered what they were. I could see the outline of the plane, it looked longer than planes usually do.
She added that the lights she saw reminded her of sodium lights. “I thought it could be some anomaly or just a meteor,” she said.
She claims her GPS logs matched where Flight MH370 supposedly vanished from radar
Tee says when she and her husband arrived in Phuket two days later, they heard “everyone talking about the missing plane.” Despite what she saw, she still had misgivings that it was actually MH370. “Besides, I thought they’d find it,” she said.
When she went back to look at her GPS logs, what she observed matched the authorities’ verified last contact with MH370.
“This is what convinced me to file a report with the full track data for our voyage to the relevant authorities,” she said.
In June 2014, she reported her encounter to the Joint Agency Coordination Centre (JACC), but sadly for the families and friends of the 239 people on board flight MH370, they and the plane are still missing.