BALTIMORE, Marylalnd March 15, 2014 (3:15 pm) - A highly respected Aviation expert wrote today in his blog that the missing Malaysian Airlines Jet filled with 239 people has likely crash-landed in a bleak stretch of the Indian Ocean, far from land. Ben Sandilands wrote today in his "Plane Talking" blog that is carried by the Crikey Media Service that it is likely the Jet flew into the southern corridor laid down by satellite data officially disclosed today by Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak. The satellite data has proven to experts involved in the search that the plane followed a ragged course beginning about 40 minutes in to its flight from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia to Beijing, China. The Jet, a Boeing 777, was on course as scheduled when it made its last radio contact with air traffic controllers at 1:20 am. Immediately after that contact with controllers at Subang, Malaysia, the jet dropped off of civilian radar. But it was followed by military radar for a little over a half of an hour. The military radar lost the jet at 2:07 am. By this time it had stopped heading for Beijing and instead turned due west, flying across the Malaysian Peninsula and out into the Straits of Malacca. As the 777 flew over the small but fascinating little island known as Pulau Pelak, it dropped off of the military radar. But with the help of the satellite data and the ability of the Jet's Rolls Royce engines to transmit data about the functioning of the plane's engines, experts have determined that the plane made a northwesterly turn in the instant the military radar lost it. These pings or pulses that the engines emitted have now enabled experts on the ground to determine that the engines were emitting data until 8:11 am local time. The data does not enable the experts to determine a precise location, but it narrows the scope of the search. The experts now know that the plane flew into one of two corridors. One of the corridors heads northeast towards Kazakhstan. The other corridor is to the southeast, toward Perth, Australia. It is this southern corridor that Mr. Sandiland believes the plane actually followed. He believes that the northern corridor would have invited detection. Mr. Sandiland wrote today that the Northern corridor is "very busy with traffic to India, the Middle East, central Asia and on to Europe and also some routes to China. It is difficult to imagine that China radars would not have picked up the unidentified flight had it tried to fly across the eastern Himalayas and the Tibet plateau. Unless the jet was flown very close, much too close, to the high altitude terrain including himalayan peaks. This is more an observation than a speculation. Such a flight path is unlikely, and it wouldn’t return a signal consistent with being over water." This last note concerning "over water" is in reference to the statement of United States' experts who concluded that the plane "went into the water" at the end of its long flight. Mr. Sandilands' outstanding blog is at http://blogs.crikey.com.au/planetalking/2014/03/15/mh370-deliberate-act-confirmed-two-new-search-targets/
The unprecedented mystery of the missing Malaysian Airlines Jet has prompted the Prime Minister of Malaysia to hold a briefing today for the diplomats of all of the nations participating in the search. That was one of the revelations today at a press conference held by the Malaysian Government. It was also revealed that the last "ping" picked by Earth-orbiting satellites came at 8:11 pm local time. 'Credible and Incisive' had estimated that the final ping came at about 6:25 am, so this revelation adds as much as one hour, 46 minutes of flight time to the plane's journey. It began at 12:41 am when it lifted off from Kuala Lumpur bound for Beijing, China. Touchdown in Beijing was set for 6:30 am, so the facts as they stand indicate that the jet was aloft long after it was originally scheduled to land. Normally, jumbo jets of this sort carry about 45 minutes of extra fuel on flights such as this one. If the plane was still aloft at 8:11 am, it is possible that the flight ended when it ran out of gas. This would corroborate revelations late in the week that the flight ended when the plane went into the water.
Sports: Burnley Gets Goal Late to Sweep Leeds for the First Time Since 1927 A jubilant Turf Moor throng saw something today that they haven't witnessed since 1927. They saw their Claret sweep Leeds. It wasn't easy. The match was tied at the half and in truth, well after the half. But in the 67th minute winger Scott Arfield hit the back of the net and that was that. Burnley ran its unbeaten streak to 14 games and, just as amazing, kept their Turf Moor record completely free of defeats. More important than any of that, however, is the fact that they have built their lead over Derby County and Queens Park to a whopping 10 points. Queens Park won today to keep pace with the Claret, beating relegation-endangered Yeovil Town, 3-0. For the second consecutive game, Derby played a scoreless draw, this time with Reading. In fact, Derby hasn't scored since February 22. Leicester won, however, beating back Blackpool, 3-1. With Leicester City's showdown with Burnley two weeks away, it has a 7 point advantage on the Claret.
Stiles throws 4.1 innings shut out relief, Terps score in 9th to beat UNC, 3-2 Freshman Taylor Stiles fired four and one-third innings of scoreless relief and Charlie White drove in the winning run with two out in the ninth inning as Maryland beat No. 13 North Carolina on Saturday afternoon, 3-2. Stiles, from Bowie, Maryland, relieved fellow freshman Mike Shawaryn in the fifth inning with two out and the bases loaded in a tie game and got Joe Dudek to fly out to right field to end the inning. Stiles improved to 2-0 with the win. Jose Cuas knocked in Maryland's first two runs in the second inning with a bases loaded double. The ball is said to have missed being a grand slam home run by just a few feet. Carolina tied it in the fourth after Shawaryn got the first two hitters out. Then, the Heels strung together four straight hits, with Dudek knocking in one run with a double and Tom Zengel, the DH, knocking in the other with a single. Shararyn then struck out Wood Myers to end the inning. In the ninth, Carolina relief pitcher Zach Rice hit Anthony Papio with one out. After Rice struck out the dangerous Cuas, Papio stole second. Number nine hitter Krysthian Leal then coaxed a walk to bring leadoff hitter White to the plate. Rice quickly got ahead of White, 0-2, but White slapped the next pitch to right field. Tar Heel rightfielder Zach Daly, who had entered the game as a pinch runner in the 8th inning, played the ball cleanly and fired home. But his throw was up the first base line just a bit, enabling Papio to slide home just ahead of diving North Carolina Catcher Korey Dunbar. Carolina is now 3-2 in the ACC and 13-5 overall. Maryland is 2-3 in the ACC and 10-5 overall. The two teams conclude the series at noon tomorrow in College Park, weather, of course, permitting.
In other ACC games Saturday, No. 17 Clemson beat back Wake Forest, 7-4, Duke shut out Notre Dame, 1-0, No. 3 Virginia took two games from Boston College, winning the first, 3-2 in 12 innings, and the second game, 2-1, Georgia Tech raced past No. 22 Miami, 13-7, Virginia Tech knocked off Pitt, 11-7, and powerful No. 2 Florida State took two from No. 7 North Carolina State, winning the first game, 8-2, and the second game in 13 innings, 9-8. Also on Saturday, No. 1 South Carolina, which lost its first game of the season on Friday to Ole Miss, got revenge on the Rebels by winning both ends of a SEC double-header. The Gamecocks won the opener, 5=4, in ten innings, and the nightcap, 3-1. The Rebels, now 17-4 overall, won Friday night in Colombia, South Carolina on the strength of Austin Bousfield's sixth inning grand slam in what was the SEC opener for both teams, and led the opener on Saturday, 4-1, with two out in the ninth inning. But Connor Bright singled home one run and pinch hitter Max Schrock hit a two-run homer to tie the game. Then, in the tenth inning, pinch hitter Brison Celek singled home the winning run for the Gamecocks. In the nightcap, Tanner English's bunt single with two outs in the fifth inning knocked in the eventual winning run as South Carolina improved to 18-1 overall and 2-1 in the SEC.
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