Malaysia Airlines faces fight for survival

Carrier struggling after losing two planes within four months, reports Alfred Romann in Hong Kong.

The tragic end of Malaysian Airline System Bhd's flight MH17 in Ukraine with 298 people on board may have sealed the fate of the struggling airline.

No airline before has had to deal with the crash of two wide-body aircraft in such a short span of time. On March 8, flight MH370 vanished with 239 passengers on board. It has never been found and the cause of the disappearance has not been ascertained. Four months later, on July 17, flight MH17 was shot down by a missile.