- Paul Weeks was on a business trip aboard Malaysia Airlines Flight 370
- Weeks has tried to keep a sense of normalcy around her home in Perth for her sons
- Still, there are questions from her 3-year-old that are difficult to hear and answer
- “We find the brightest star and he says, ‘Goodnight daddy, I love you. See you in the morning for breakfast”
Perth, Australia (CNN) — Danica Weeks says she just couldn’t take it anymore. So she did what no other relative of those missing on Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 could do: She made the 10 minute drive from her home near Perth to the nerve center of the search for the missing plane at Royal Australian Air Force Base Pearce, and asked what they were doing to try and find her husband.
“I’ve seen what they’re doing and have been taken over the process and I feel so privileged that I’m here now, that I’m right on and close to the search and that I can ask the questions,” Weeks told CNN in an interview at her home Friday.
“And I feel so much for the families that are abroad — in Beijing, Kuala Lumpur, the U.S. and everywhere else — all families, that they can’t be here.”
Weeks’ 39-year-old husband, Paul, a mechanical engineer, was on Flight 370. He was headed to Mongolia on a project and expected to be home to celebrate his son Jack’s first birthday in a few weeks.
“Sometimes I catch myself, you know, seeing the excitement of him coming home and I have to get … that out of my brain quick because I can’t let myself go to that level of excitement … it’s only going to make me crash further when I find out the real truth, which we’re all expecting will be the plane has crashed. But until that point and we have something concrete, I can’t grieve.” said Weeks.
But seeing the international search effort firsthand has given Weeks a measure of comfort, she said. Still, she does have nagging doubts about the lack of evidence and the amount of guesswork that has driven the investigation so far.
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