14 April 2014 (00:41 UTC-07 Tango)/13 Jumada t-Tania 1435/25 Farvardin 1393/15 Wu-Chen 4712
An oil slick was spotted 5.5 kilometers (3.4 miles) downwind of the Australian Defence ship Ocean Shield. Samples have been taken to test where the oil came from.
More sonar devices are being employed in the ever shrinking MH370/CZ748 search area. No pings have been heard since 08 April 2014.
Now something to spur conspiracy thoughts; there are behind closed door arguments over who actually controls the data recorders, if they’re ever found!
According to the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) the country from where the aircraft is registered has the responsibility to search for, and collect the wreckage of a downed aircraft. In this case it would be Malaysia. However, for some reason the Attorney General of Malaysia felt compelled to visit ICAO officials in United Kingdom to express concern: “The AG is in the U.K. discussing exactly that. The experts involved, including ICAO, are referring to international and domestic laws to determine the ownership of the black box once it is retrieved.”-Hishammuddin bin Tun Hussein, Malaysian Defense Minister and Acting Transport Minister
Officials from Malaysia have arrived in Perth, Australia, to “assist” in search coordination.