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DID KATHERINE TEE, YACHTSWOMAN, SEE MH370 BURNING UP OVER THE INDIAN OCEAN?
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MailOnline
British sailor Katherine Tee says she saw what appeared to be a plane that was on fire with black smoke trailing behind it
The 41-year-old had been at sea for 13 months sailing from Cochin, India to Phuket, Thailand with her husband Marc Horn, 50, and their pet dog
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HERE IS SOMEONE WHO IS SUSPICIOUS OF KATHERINE TEE’S STORY AND YET BELIEVES THAT THERE MAY BE SOME TRUTH IN IT…
AMERICAN EVERYMAN
Malaysia Airlines Flight 370: What to Make of Katherine Tee and her New Claim
by Scott Creighton (H/T Greg Bacon)
There is a new report out concerning the fate of missing Malaysian Airlines Flight MH370 which has been garnering a little attention in the MSM as of late.
The report is based on the supposed eye-witness testimony of a woman named Kathrine Tee, a British “yachtie” living in Phuket, Thailand.
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Now let’s keep this in mind folks:
- First – this woman is British and so is the company Inmarsat that fabricated the “ping data” story which distracted the search for Flight 370 for over two months. Now that their little gig is up, suddenly we have another Brit coming forward with another tale?
- Second – according to Katherine, she’s only come forward now because the other British based misdirection story has fallen apart. That’s according to her – her own words – “But tonight I heard that they were looking in the wrong place, so HWMO and I looked back through our GPS log, and lo and behold, what we saw was consistent with the confirmed contact which authorities had from MH370.” She never told a soul about this and that apparently includes her husband. Who wouldn’t tell anyone about seeing a plane burning in the sky especially after they made port in Thailand on March the 10th and it was all over the news?
- Third – Australia and Britain both have contingents stationed at Butterworth Air Force Base in Malaysia which lies directly in the flight path of that “unidentified radar blip” the Malaysian military reported the day after Flight 370 went missing.
So her story is suspect at best. However, keeping all of that in mind, let’s take a look at what she actually said while pondering this: is it possible what she saw is the same thing as what Mike McKay saw? A burning Flight 370 trying desperately to make it back to Malaysia?
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As you can see from the diameter I drew, Mike McKay reported seeing Flight 370 burning in the sky from nearly that far away the same night.
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Just over 600 miles away? Could she have seen a burning plane at 35,000 feet that far away at night? I think she could have.
So, if my back of the napkin physics is roughly accurate, it would have indeed been possible for Katherine Tee to have seen the same thing that Mike McKay saw… Flight 370 on fire in the sky above the South China Sea where it disappeared from the radar and the ACARS system so long ago.
I’m not saying that she is right. I’m not saying that she isn’t making it up. But, it’s possible if she was confused about the craft’s orientation that what she claims she saw actually bolsters Mike McKay’s earlier statement and proves once again that the search for Flight 370 should never have left the South China Sea and it also makes it painfully clear that the plane did not run out of gas in the Indian Ocean Garbage Patch and probably downed accidentally by a military vessel in the area or one of those blips everyone keeps talking about.
Taken in this context, what this may actually be is a second, confirming eye-witness report placing the downing of Flight 370 in the South China Sea.
Read the full article in:
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Free Malaysia Today
Australia probes possible MH370 witness account
SYDNEY: Australia was today investigating an account from a sailor who said she may have seen Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 on fire, as officials said the underwater hunt for the plane could dive much deeper.
The Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB), which is leading the search at the request of the Malaysian government, is looking at the claim from a British yachtswoman made this week.
“The ATSB received… a message from a member of the public, reporting that they had seen what they believed to be a burning aircraft in the sky above the Indian Ocean on the night of the disappearance of MH370,” a spokesman told AFP in an email.
“That information has been forwarded to the ATSB’s MH370 Search Strategy Working Group for review.”
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Free Malaysia Today
British yachtswoman Katherine Tee added to speculation about the location of a possible crash site by revealing she saw a glowing plane over the Indian Ocean in March.
The 41-year-old said she told Australian authorities of her sighting of a plane with “what appeared to be a tail of black smoke coming from behind it” while she travelled from Kochi in India to Phuket in Thailand.
“There were two other planes passing higher than it — moving the other way — at that time,” she wrote on sailing site Cruisers Forum, a firm for which she also works.
“I recall thinking that if it was a plane on fire that I was seeing, the other aircraft would report it.”
She said she told no one at the time because she and her husband, who was onboard but asleep, had been having difficulties and had not spoken for about a week.
“And most of all, I wasn’t sure of what I saw,” she said. “I couldn’t believe it myself.”
But after confirming her yacht’s position using GPS data in recent days, she said she knew she was in the “right place at the right time” and told authorities.
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EXPRESS
‘I saw Malaysia Airlines jet on fire’ British sailor claims to have seen Flight MH370
A BRITISH sailor claims to have seen the missing Malaysia Airlines jet on fire above the Indian Ocean.
Published: Tue, June 3, 2014
Katherine Tee and her husband Marc Horn were sailing from Kochi to Phuket[JEREMIE SCHATZ/PHUKET GAZETTE]
Katherine Tee was sailing from Kochi, India to Phuket in Thailand when she spotted what she believes to be stricken Flight MH370.
The 41-year-old, from Liverpool, has now filed a report with the authorities in charge of the so-far fruitless search for debris from the Boeing 777.
Mrs Tee has revealed how she saw what looked like a plane on fire crossing the night sky, with a plume of black smoke trailing behind it.
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According to the couple’s data, their 40-foot vessel was in the vicinity of one of the initial projected flight paths for MH370.
Posting her findings on a sailing forum, Mrs Tee has now been convinced to file a report with the full data of her voyage to the Joint Agency Coordination Centre.
She said: “Will this help the authorities of the families get closure? I have no idea.
“All I can confirm is that I have since learnt that we were in the right place at the right time, so it seems possible, but I chose to sweep it under the carpet and now I feel really bad.
“Maybe I should have had a little more confidence in myself. I am sorry I didn’t take action sooner.”
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The Joint Agency Coordination Centre (JACC), the Australian organization tasked with co-ordinating the search for MH370 in the southern Indian Ocean, was informed, with a follow-up email yesterday.
Liverpool Echo
Liverpool sailor says she saw missing Malaysian Airlines flight MH370 “burning” in the night sky
Yachtswoman Katherine Tee was sailing from India to Thailand when the Malaysian Airlines flight vanished.
A Liverpool sailor crossing the Indian Ocean believes she may have seen missing flight MH370 “burning” in the night sky.
Yachtswoman Katherine Tee was sailing from India to Phuket, Thailand, with her husband Marc Horn, 50, when the Malaysian Airlines flight vanished on March 8.
She has filed a report with authorities investigating the disappearance – described spotting what looked like a jet with “orange lights” and trailing a plume of smoke.
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She told the Phuket Gazette: “I was on a night watch. My husband was asleep below deck and our one other crew member was asleep on deck.
“I saw something that looked like a plane on fire. That’s what I thought it was. Then, I thought I must be mad… 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. There was what appeared to be black smoke streaming from behind it.
“There were two other planes passing well above it – moving the other way – at that time. They had normal navigation lights. I remember thinking that if it was a plane on fire that I was seeing, the other aircraft would report it.
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“I did think that what I saw would add little, and be dismissed with the thousands of other sightings that I assumed were being reported. I thought that the authorities would be able to track [the plane’s] GPS log, which I assumed was automatically transmitted, or something like that.
“Most of all, I wasn’t sure of what I saw. I couldn’t believe it myself, and didn’t think anyone would believe me when I was having trouble believing my own eyes.
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After hearing a news report last Saturday explaining that a survey ship involved in the search for MH370 was returning to port due to technical problems, Katherine began reviewing her yacht’s log.
After Mr Horn studied data maps of the yacht’s route, the couple discovered that their 40-foot sloop was in the vicinity of one of the projected flight paths for MH370.
Ms Tee: “This is what convinced me… to file a report with the full track data for our voyage to the relevant authorities.”
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British sailor claims to have seen Malaysian Airlines flight MH370 after it went missing
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