Disaster strikes again for airline

Almost incredibly, Malaysia Airlines finds itself at the centre of a world aviation disaster for the second time this year.

It is only a few weeks since the Far East carrier was embroiled in what has become one of the great plane mysteries – the disappearance of flight MH370.

Now another Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777 lies wrecked in the Ukraine — seemingly the victim of a missile attack.

It was on March 8 that flight 370, carrying 239 passengers and crew veered far off course for unknown reasons during a flight from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing.

Initially, it was thought that the plane would soon be located. But weeks, and finally months, have passed and still there has been no sign of the aircraft.

Now comes news that of all the carriers to be involved in what appears to be an act of sabotage it should be beleaguered Malaysian Airlines.

Once more their managers have had to tell the world that they have lost contact with one of their aircraft. Now there are some who doubt whether the airline can recover from this.