As the world still ponders on what became of the Malaysian flight MH370 , latest news is that a New Zealand oil rig worker who says he saw the missing flight MH370 “on fire,” but was sacked for reporting the incident.
On March 8 the night the plane disappeared, Mike McKay was working on the Songa Mercur oil rig off the southern coast of Vietnam , when he claims he saw a burning plane over the South China Sea.
“I believe I saw the Malaysian Airlines plane come down. The timing is right,” he said.
Soon after hearing about the boeing 777 McKay sent an email to his employer reporting that he had seen the missing plane.
To the annoyance of his employer the contents of the email were leaked to the media and this resulted in McKay being dismissed from his job.
The employer was not happy about the constant enquiries about his claims.
Vietnamese authorities interviewed the New Zealander after receiving his detailed email and started an initial search in the South China Sea, but this was called off when the hunt for MH370 switched to the Andaman Sea.
Yachtswoman Katherine Tee, 41, a British national last week reported seeing a plane on fire on the same night as Mr McKay’s, but in a different area, sailing east from southern India to Phuket in southern Thailand.
The Joint Agency Co-ordination Centre announced that a deeper underwater search would commence in August and is expected to last a year.
Search efforts to locate the missing plane lasted three months and resulted in nothing being found and relatives of missing passengers are very convinced there is some information being concealed.
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