Christoph Mueller will embark on one of the toughest jobs in aviation, turning around an airline that has lost two jets and 537 lives this year. The 52-year-old outgoing chief executive officer of Dublin-based Aer Lingus Group Plc (AERL), has been named to lead the Malaysia Airlines amid a slump in traffic and widening losses. He will need restore confidence in the airline while cutting 6,000 jobs.
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A body lies in a wheat field at the site of the crash of a Malaysia Airlines plane carrying 298 people from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur in Grabove, in rebel-held east Ukraine, on July 19, 2014.
