A British sailor believes she may have solved one of aviation's greatest mysteries, claiming she saw Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 on fire as it crashed into the Indian Ocean 12 years ago.
Katherine Tee, from Liverpool, was sailing from Cochin, India, to Phuket, Thailand, with her husband Marc Horn on March 8, 2014, when she spotted what she described as a “bright orange” plane with a “trail of black smoke” behind it. The couple were in the Indian Ocean at the time.
Tee initially dismissed the sighting, thinking she “was going insane” or that it might be a meteorite. She told the Phuket Gazette: “I thought I saw a burning plane cross behind our stern from port to starboard... It caught my attention because I had never seen a plane with orange lights before.”
Two days later, upon arriving in Phuket, she heard news of the missing MH370 flight and began to doubt her recollection. However, after checking her GPS logs, she found the coordinates matched the flight path authorities had confirmed for MH370. She filed a report with the Joint Agency Coordination Centre in June 2014.
MH370 disappeared on March 8, 2014, with 227 passengers and 12 crew on board, en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing. Despite extensive searches, only a few pieces of debris have been found along the African coast and on Indian Ocean islands. The search was relaunched in late 2023 but has yet to locate the main wreckage.
