MH370 victim Paul Weeks’ wife Danica Weeks fuming over new report coming out about plane

THE wife of a man who died on board flight MH370 says she’s angry the Malaysian government didn’t offer to fly her from Australia for a briefing on the final report until the last minute.

THE wife of an Australian resident who disappeared on MH370 says she is furious that a Malaysian Government offer to fly her to Kuala Lumpur for a briefing today on the release of the final report into the doomed plane came at the last minute.

Danica Weeks, whose husband Paul was one of 239 people on board the missing MH370 flight, said the offer to fly her to Malaysia for the briefing was only made on Friday last week – 48 hours before today’s report release – and too little notice for her to get there.

The couple’s two young boys are just seven and five and Ms Weeks said it was just too hard for her get there with barely any notice.

Other foreign families are today voicing the same discontent, saying they too were only told on Friday that the Government would pay their airfares and accommodation should they wish to attend.

“I am infuriated. I would have liked to go,” Ms Weeks said. “I would have liked to have a one on one conversation with the investigators and find out what they have been doing for the last four and a half years.”

MH370 victim Paul Weeks with his wife Danica.

Ms Weeks and her two boys, who now live on Queensland’s Sunshine Coast, said the investigation team had emailed her last week to inform them of the report’s release and to offer a family briefing with the investigators. But at that stage the cost of flights and accommodation was to be borne by the families themselves.

“I couldn’t do it. It’s too expensive to go from the Sunshine Coast to Kuala Lumpur in a 20-hour round trip,” she said.

Then last Thursday, about 10pm, the Malaysian team called her. She was already in bed and didn’t receive the message until Friday, when she then spoke with them and the offer to pay for the trip to KL was made. By then it was too late.

“I said, it’s too late, I have a full-time job. They have known about this for at least a month, this didn’t come out of the blue,” Ms Weeks said. “It is too little too late.”

She said the Malaysian team had then promised to send an emailed copy of the final report today. But at 2.30pm, well after the family briefing had started in Kuala Lumpur, she was still waiting for her copy.

Danica Weeks of Perth and her husband Paul Weeks. Paul was on the MH370 flight when it vanished. Supplied Facebook.

“They obviously handled it badly again and that’s where we are left.”

Ms Weeks said she hoped today’s report into the March 2014 mystery of MH370 might yield some new information but she was not holding her breath.

Ms Weeks has not had a funeral or memorial service for her husband, saying she just can’t do so until she has answers.

Her two boys know their father is gone and her heart breaks that her oldest son has asked where their father is buried and if they can visit the grave.

“We say he is heaven. They cry for him as any boy would missing their father and seeing other children playing with their father. They struggle from that,” Ms Weeks said.

She said the boys know their father was on a plane and think it crashed and one day she hopes to have answers for them.

“They deserve them, we all deserve them.”

Originally published as MH370 victim Paul Weeks’ wife Danica Weeks fuming over new report coming out about plane