DHAKA: A British woman who was sailing near Indonesia at the time Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 disappeared has said she believes she saw the plane ‘burning’ and billowing smoke before it crashed in the southern Indian Ocean.

An eye-witness account from yachting enthusiast Katherine Tee, 41, has now been filed with the Joint Agency Coordination Centre (JACC) leading the search based in Australia, which is yet to find any trace of the missing jet.

In her account, Katherine Tee has described seeing ‘an elongated plane glowing bright orange, with a trail of black smoke behind it’, heading from north to south, reports The Times of India.

The object was flying at ‘about half the height’ of two other flights in the same patch of sky at the time, she said, in a series of posts detailing the sighting on the yachting website Cruisers Forum, where Katherine Tee is a moderator.

BDST: 2050 HRS, JUNE 03, 2014