A British female sailor Katherine Tee claims she may have seen the remains of the burning MH370 aircraft.
Katherine Tee suspects that the "bright orange flames" and "black smoke trails" she witnessed above the Indian Ocean may be related to the plane carrying 239 people that disappeared in 2014.
On the day MH370 went missing, British female sailor Katherine Tee and her husband Marc Horn were traveling by boat from Cochin, India to Phuket, Thailand. In an interview with the Phuket Gazette in 2014, Katherine Tee described in detail what she saw, and explained that she did not report early because she thought she was "going crazy".
Recalling that moment, the British female sailor said: "I thought I saw a burning plane flying behind the stern of the boat, from left to right, almost north to south. Because this is not what you see every day, I doubted myself. I saw something that looked like a long plane, shining bright orange, behind it was a streak of black smoke. I also thought it might be a meteorite. But then thought maybe I was going crazy.
The female sailor added: "What caught my attention was that I had never seen an airplane with such orange light. I could see its lines, looking longer than ordinary airplanes.
Katherine Tee also saw another plane in the sky over that area and believed that if there was an emergency, the pilot of the orange-lighted plane would definitely report it.
I wondered why it had such bright orange light. They reminded me of sodium lamps. I thought it might be an abnormal phenomenon or a meteorite," she shared.
The British female sailor couple continued their journey to Phuket and arrived there after 2 days. At that time, they heard people talking about the missing plane.
Still doubting what she saw, Katherine Tee said she did not speak up at the time. "Moreover, I also thought they would find it" - she said.
Later, the experienced female sailor from Liverpool, England reviewed the GPS data during the trip.
Surprisingly, what we saw matched the confirmed contact data that authorities had about MH370. This made me decide to send a report with all the travel data to the relevant authorities," she said.
It is not yet clear whether information provided by MH370 witness Katherine Tee has ever been investigated. She sent a report to the Joint Agency Coordination Center (JACC) in June 2014.
Exactly a decade ago, 227 passengers and 12 crew members on a Boeing 777-200ER traveled from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia to Beijing, China. But only about 40 minutes after taking off on March 8, 2014, the plane disappeared from radar and has not been found to this day.
The people on board are believed to have died while the MH370 disappearance is considered one of the biggest mysteries in aviation history.
Many hypotheses about MH370's disappearance have been put forward, and many large-scale searches have been carried out. However, only some MH370 debris drifted ashore in Africa and islands in the Indian Ocean have been found.
Experts believe that the plane may have deviated from its planned route, flying west for hours before disappearing.
