Malaysia sends aircraft to help Thailand clear up oil slick threatening to damage environment

An aircraft from a company specialising in recoveries from oil spills arrived Thursday from Malaysia to join an urgent effort to clean up an oil slick before it could hit beaches in eastern Thailand, officials said.The C-130 joined other planes, ships and a helicopter deployed by the Thai navy to contain the damage from The Star Petroleum Refining Public Company’s oil that leaked Tuesday night from a mooring station in the Gulf of Thailand.Information from Thailand’s Geo-Informatics and Space…