MH370 Flight Found? Mystery Reignites as Witness Claims Knowledge of Crash Location

The MH370 mystery endures as aviation's darkest enigma, captivating global searches with fresh witness claims and renewed Indian Ocean expeditions. On 8 March 2014, Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 vanished en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing, carrying 239 passengers in a Boeing 777 tragedy that defies resolution.

As 2025 Ocean Infinity hunts resume amid debris discoveries and conspiracy theories, a forgotten oil rig observer emerges, alleging he pinpointed the fiery demise, fuelling #MH370 hashtags, pilot suicide speculations, and southern Indian Ocean wreckage quests in this decade-long aviation disappearance saga.

The Night MH370 Vanished: Timeline of Terror

Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 departed Kuala Lumpur International Airport at 00:41 local time on 8 March 2014, bound for Beijing with 227 passengers and 12 crew aboard a Boeing 777-200ER. At 1:19am, the captain signed off with Malaysian air traffic control; by 1:21am, the transponder ceased transmission, severing civilian radar contact over the South China Sea.

Military radar later revealed the aircraft veered west across the Malay Peninsula, evading detection near Penang Airport and a Butterworth F-16 base, before arcing south into the Indian Ocean. Inmarsat satellite handshakes indicated endurance until 8:19am, plotting a probable endpoint along the 'seventh arc' near 35°S 92.8°E.

This deliberate deviation, possibly a pilot suicide as simulated routes from Captain Zaharie Ahmad Shah's home flight simulator suggested, plunged the world into frenzy. Families, from Chinese tourists to Australian executives, decried the opacity, with searches spanning 120,000 square kilometres yielding scant debris like the 2015 Reunion Island flaperon. The enigma persists, birthing theories from cyber hijackings to extraterrestrial abductions, yet no black boxes or main wreckage surface to silence the speculation.

Mike McKay: The Forgotten Witness' Fiery Account

New Zealand oil rig engineer Mike McKay, then 57, stood on the Songa Mercur platform 260 kilometres off Vietnam's coast during a 8 March 2014 cigarette break when he spied catastrophe.

'I observed the plane burning at high altitude at a compass bearing of 265 to 275 degrees from our surface location,' McKay emailed employers, estimating the inferno lasted 10-15 seconds with no lateral motion, suggesting a perpendicular plunge south-west of normal paths. The sighting aligned temporally with MH370's radar ghosting, prompting Vietnamese aircraft dispatches, yet McKay's leaked report cost his job amid media scorn.

'Of course, I ended up looking like a fool. But what happened to me is of no consequence considering those who lost family on the flight,' he reflected, questioning radar delays and sonar pings that shifted focus from the South China Sea to Australia's west coast. McKay posits the seventh arc places wreckage south of Sumatra, not the distant 'roaring forties,' urging scrutiny of metal stress on Reunion debris to decode break-up dynamics.

His testimony, resurfacing in 2025 amid #MH370 witness revivals, challenges official narratives, with verified X user @JustXAshton noting, 'Blane Gibson... says the plane is not intact... We're staring at Gorgon Stare footage of MH370 being zapped.'

Though distances strain credibility, McKay's precision bearing offers a tangible lead in the aviation disappearance labyrinth.

Renewed 2025 Searches and Lingering Doubts

On 25 February 2025, Malaysia's Transport Minister Anthony Loke greenlit Ocean Infinity's 18-month probe across 15,000 square kilometres in the southern Indian Ocean, under a 'no find, no fee' pact promising £45.6 million ($70 million) upon success. Halted in April by 10-metre waves, resumption eyes November from Perth, leveraging autonomous underwater vehicles for depths to 4,000 metres.

'They have stopped the operation for the time being, they will resume the search at the end of this year,' Loke assured AFP. EgyptAir's Ismail Hammad counters debris authenticity, claiming paint conditions defy saltwater immersion: 'The condition of the plane's paint is not consistent with what would happen if it had been lying in salt water for as long as it had.'

February 2025's Jeffreys Bay, South Africa, find—a 1-metre spoiler fragment in Malaysia Airlines grey—bolsters drift models to 35°S, yet Malaysian silence persists. WSPR data analyses discount wild theories, honing the arc, while families amplify #MH370Truth demands.