The plane was flying from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur when, according to Dutch air crash investigators, it was likely struck by multiple "high-energy objects" that some aviation experts say is consistent with a missile strike. For an already troubled company, the disaster was the straw that broke the camel's back, said Dekker.For others, a disaster may well mean "rebranding, rebadging, a new air operator's certificate".The Malaysian transport minister, Liao Tiong Lai, declined to comment on the airline's future at a press conference about the disaster on Friday, describing that as a separate issue.Prior to MH370's disappearance, Malaysia Airlines was making losses but seemed to be improving, said Mohsin; it was reducing operating costs and selling more tickets.

But while its flights were increasingly full, it had not managed to bump up its fares.Now the airline's previously strong safety record has effectively been erased for passengers by two such losses. Six victims have yet to be identified. An Indonesia AirAsia flight with 162 people aboard, most of them Indonesians, disappeared on Sunday over the Java Sea, triggering a search involving several Southeast Asian nations.

"It is more realistic or probable for the government to intervene directly or via Khazanah. Until the wreckage is found and examined, it will be impossible to say for sure what happened to the plane. Hunks of the wreckage were transported to the Netherlands by trucks and will be reassembled in a hangar. The 60,000-square kilometer (23,000-square mile) search area lies along what is known as the "seventh arc" — a stretch of ocean where investigators believe the aircraft ran out of fuel and crashed, based largely on an analysis of transmissions between the plane and a satellite. It said that the plane was on the submitted flight plan route when the pilots requested deviation due to weather before communication was lost. "One key question is whether the airline should have chosen another course for the Boeing-777, given that two aircraft had been downed in the region that week.Malaysia Airlines said early on Friday: "The usual flight route was earlier declared safe by the International Civil Aviation Organisation.

DISASTER struck Malaysia Airlines twice in 2014. The shooting down of a Boeing 777 travelling from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur in 2014 left 298 people dead and has prompted sanctions, international investigations and criminal charges. First, in March, flight 370 from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing vanished without a trace with 239 passengers and crew onboard—and still has not been recovered. Missing AirAsia Flight Is Third Malaysia Air Disaster in 2014 . The government is learning on the job like Malaysian Airlines what crisis and disaster management is. "If the public is willing to keep them separate and say they really have little to do with each other, and any common link is not Malaysia Airlines, you can probably survive with the brand relatively intact," he said.But that is a big if. "It is pure chance.

I flew through Ukrainian airspace on Monday with my daughter. A high-ranking rebel officer has acknowledged that rebels shot down the plane with a ground-to-air missile after mistaking it for a Ukrainian military plane. The Associated Press.

"Questions were also raised about the airline's choice of route, after it emerged that some other carriers had avoided the area for months – though many companies were flying in the same area, rerouting only after Thursday's disaster.The carrier, and the Malaysian government, came under heavy criticism for its handling of MH370's disappearance – particularly in China, which lost more than 150 nationals in that disaster. According to the International Air Transport Association, there were an average of 517 deaths annually in commercial aviation incidents between 2009 and 2013. AirAsia Malaysia owns 49 percent of its subsidiary, AirAsia Indonesia. "People are only willing to fly with Malaysia Airlines if the ticket price is really, really cheap," said Mohsin.The airline has also faced additional costs, such as supporting the families of victims and increasing its spending on marketing.Reuters reported earlier this month that Malaysian state investor Khazanah Nasional Bhd planned to take MAS private as the first step towards restructuring the company, citing two unnamed sources. A look at Malaysia's air disasters this year.

"What I have heard raised in various guises is the broader question: can we come to more efficient international agreements about where to avoid flying and where to fly?" © 2020 Guardian News & Media Limited or its affiliated companies. It's so funny, they are a laughing stock," one young man told reporters angrily.While the two Malaysia Airlines flight disasters are clearly very different, the uncanny coincidences are likely to resonate. It happened outside the more common way of crashing for big airlines; most accidents happen close to landing or just after takeoff. International Air Transport Association has stated that the airspace the aircraft was traversing was not subject to restrictions. Analysts say Malaysia Airlines' future now hangs in the balance -- and it may take a government rescue to save the company from financial disaster.