Dateline: Mar 3

Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 has been missing for one year this Sunday, vanished without trace.

Tuesday’s Dateline tracks the Weeks family as they live through their first year without devoted husband and father, Paul Weeks. Christmas, birthdays, their wedding anniversary, and is there as the family anxiously board a plane for the first time since the disappearance of MH370.

Danica Weeks and her two sons are amongst the grieving family members who lost loved ones in the tragic event. Paul Weeks was a FIFO mining worker in Mongolia. He boarded the routine passenger flight on March 8, 2014 which departed from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia and was bound for Beijing, China. He was in Business Class, in seat 1C.

In an emotional one-on-one interview, Danica tells Dateline of her daily struggles. From how she tells her sons about what has happen to their father, to their very first flight as a family.

“I just have to keep telling him that Dad is in his heart and hope that brings some comfort to him but it’s hard to explain something to him. They tell you not to, I’ve asked so many people what do I tell him?“

The program also tracks the developments, false alarms and disappointments in the year-long hunt for MH370 through Danica’s eyes. She describes the agony of constantly wondering what happened to Paul. She’s frustrated with Malaysian authorities, claiming they’ve simply refused to answer her questions.

“They are wanting to put this aside. In their own words – to move beyond MH370. How do you move? We don’t get to move beyond! We will never get to move beyond. So how can they just move beyond this and forget about it?”

Deputy Prime Minister Warren Truss tells Dateline: “It’s been frustrating, but particularly frustrating obviously for the families, who are seeking information, so that they can have some closure in this incident. We’re determined to put in the maximum, the best possible effort, and if the aircraft is where we think it is, we’re confident we can find it.

Dateline also speaks to the individuals who are leading the search and pushing themselves working up to 100 hour weeks, as they desperately trace the deep waters of the Southern Indian Ocean looking for the missing the Boeing 777-200ER aircraft.

Tuesday, 3 March at 9.30pm on SBS ONE.