How could a commercial airliner disappear without a sign, you ask? In fact, several people on the ground or at sea claimed they saw Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 before it went missing after its post-midnight takeoff from Kuala Lumpur on March 8. The purported eyewitnesses include fishermen, an oil rig worker and islanders in an atoll. Some even alleged they saw it crash. While none of their claims have been substantiated, their assertions add to the ongoing mystery of the missing Boeing 777 and the 239 people aboard. Sighting claim: Kota Bharu, Malaysia In the middle of the night, two fishermen near the Malaysia-Thailand border saw a plane flying low over the South China Sea -- at the same time that air traffic controllers lost contact with Flight 370 over the same body of water, at 1:30 a.m. or almost 50 minutes after takeoff.
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Earthbound witnesses say they saw Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 flying low or even crashing
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But none of the claims is substantiated by authorities
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Fishermen in Malaysia and Indonesia allege they saw the plane
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A New Zealand man on an oil rig off Vietnam claims he saw a plane burning
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