Man who claimed he saw burning jet 'sacked'
Mike McKay, the New Zealander who claimed to have sighted a burning aircraft going down off the Vietnamese coast in March, has been sacked from his job following that claim, New Zealand daily the Sunday Star Times reported.
McKay, who was working on the Songa Mercur oil rig, had sent an e-mail with his full name and New Zealand passport number to his superiors in March after he saw what he believed was a burning plane, suspected to be missing Malaysian Airlines Flight MH370.
The e-mail, which was leaked to the media, contained details which identified the rig operator, Idemitsu and McKay’s contractor, Songa Offshore, details which led to the two companies having their communications blocked due to a flood of inquiries.
McKay, a veteran of 35 years of work in Southeast Asia, said that “contracts mean little in the oil field” and maintained that he believed the burning aircraft he saw at high altitude was MH370.
“I believe I saw the Malaysian Airlines plane come down. The timing is right,” said McKay, who added that the aircraft he claims to have spotted was off the normal flight path, based on daily observations of contrails.
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