The head of Malaysia Airlines announced the technical bankruptcy of the company – RIA Novosti

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MOSCOW, June 1 – RIA Novosti / Prime. Airline Malaysia Airlines ( MAS), which is in the process of restructuring, is technically bankrupt, said the new CEO Christoph Mueller MAS (Shristoph Mueller).

“We are technically bankrupt … the deterioration of the performance began long before the tragic events of 2014,” – Reuters leads the statement Mueller made during a press conference.

The government of Malaysia in the summer of 2014 after two major plane crashes announced the beginning of the process of delisting and nationalization of the airlines, so as to preserve the brand of the national carrier, and return it profitability. The restructuring plan, announced in late August, 6000 implies a reduction of staff, change management, and possibly the sale of a strategic stake and a reduction in the commercial routes.

According to the estimates of the Malaysian consulting firm Endau Analytics, after two accidents with MH17 MH370 flights and airline loses one to two million dollars a day. Thus, total losses of Malaysia Airlines for the past three years amounted to approximately $ 1.3 billion.

The first of the “missing” aircraft on Malaysia Airlines flight became MN370 taking off in early March from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing from 227 passengers and 12 crew members on board. The wreckage of the aircraft has not yet been found. Presumably, the aircraft fell in the southern Indian Ocean.

Another major airline tragedy became a Boeing 777 flying from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur, crashed on July 17, in the Donetsk region. On board the ship were 298 people, among them – 85 children and 15 crew members. Among them was also attended by 193 Dutch citizens. All of them were killed.

What other emergency occurred with Malaysian airliners

This is not the first incident with the aircraft Malaysian airlines this year. In the night of March 8 Boeing 777-200 airliner airlines Malaysia Airlines, made flight MH370 from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing with 227 passengers and 12 crew members on board, disappeared from radar screens. It is assumed that the plane flew into the southern part of the Indian Ocean, where crashed. Extensive searches in the ocean failed. More details about the incident with the flight MH370 read the Chronicle & gt; & gt;

July 17 Boeing 777 passenger plane flying from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur flight MH17, crashed in the Donetsk region. On board the ship were 298 people, among them – 85 children and 15 crew members. They all died. Kiev authorities have accused the militias of Donbass in the crash, and they said they did not have the means that could bring down the aircraft at a height. The preliminary report on the investigation means that the plane broke up in flight due to “structural damage caused by external influences many high-energy objects”, but the source of these objects could not be established. More details about the investigation collapse of the liner – in the special Ria.ru & gt; & gt;