Malaysian Flight MH370 Search Update, News: Oil Rig Worker Insists He Saw Airplane 'Come Down'
Apparently, the search operation for the still missing Malaysian Airlines flight MH370 was done in the "wrong area."
A recent Flight MH370 news report from The Daily Mail indicated a certain Mike McKay who stands by his claims that he had seen first-hand the "burning wreckage" of the airline crashing into the South China Sea, last year.
"Almost a year has passed, but I stand by what I saw," the 57-year-old said. "I've thought about it and thought about it, over and over and while I cannot say for certain that the burning object in the sky was definitely MH370, the timing fits in with when the Malaysian plane lost contact."
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"If it was MH370 I cannot imagine how it could have continued flying. It could only have come down in the South China Sea," the oil-rig worker continued. "I have been trying to disprove that what I saw was the aeroplane ever since."
The New Zelander says he got up around midnight Vietnam time, which is about one hour advance of Malaysian time, to grab a smoke and a coffee.
"It was a beautiful night with good visibility because it had been raining, which always tends to clear the air," McKay recalled. "I saw a sudden glow of fire above the horizon – which caught my immediate attention – although, of course I could not have known whether it was definitely an aircraft or not."
McKay went on to say that he emailed authorities about what he saw. The action resulted him getting fired from the Songa Mercur oil rig that he had worked at for 30 years.
The Boeing Class 777 aircraft vanished en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing on March 8, 2014 along with its 239 passengers and crew on board. Major international search operations were done in the southern part of Indian Ocean opposite to what McKay has claimed.
