Yachtswoman Katherine Tee told Australian authorities that she saw "what appeared to be a tail of black smoke coming from behind" the plane as she travelled from India to Thailand back in March.
"There were two other planes passing higher than it – moving the other way – at that time," she wrote on sailing website Cruisers Forum.
"I recall thinking that if it was a plane on fire that I was seeing, the other aircraft would report it."
Despite the disappearance of the Malaysia Airlines jet being headline news for months Ms Tee said she didn't mention it because she and her husband had been having difficulties and had not spoken for a week.
It was recently revealed that two "pings" believed to be from the aircraft's black box were likely to have come from other search ships in the area.
MH370's last known position as tracked by military radar was roughly west of Phuket, although the search area has focused on a zone hundreds of miles further south.
Meanwhile researchers at Western Australia's Curtin University have revealed they detected a low-frequency underwater sound which could have come from the plane.
A listening station off Rottnest Island, close to the Western Australia coast, picked up the signal at 0130 GMT on March 8.
Alec Duncan, from Curtin's Centre for Marine Science and Technology, said the noise may have come from the plane crashing.
"I wouldn't totally rule it out ... it's not impossible," he told AFP, but said it was more likely to have originated from a natural source, such as an earth tremor.
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