'Will I ever see you again?' Wife keeps 100-day diary of hope and despair as MH370 hunt goes on

The plane didn't crash, he is still alive. There is still hope. - Gao Yongfu, March 15.

When Malaysia Airlines confirmed that air traffic controllers had lost contact with Flight MH370 at 2.40am on March 8, Gao Yongfu had been sleeping soundly. A mid-level pharmaceutical executive, she awoke at 6.30am, in her home in Tianjin. She dialled the phone of her husband, Li Zhi, who had been scheduled to land at Beijing Capital International Airport at about that time.

He didn't pick up.

By 8am, media outlets around the world began reporting the plane's disappearance. Malaysian and Vietnamese authorities started a joint search in the Gulf of Thailand for the Boeing 700-200ER and its 227 passengers and 12 crew members.

Gao rushed to the Beijing airport, where she joined the pandemonium of families and journalists. In the hours that followed, she overheard numerous rumours regarding where the plane could have landed. She pulled a piece of paper from her bag and began jotting down notes. That night she wrote about what had transpired during the day.

For that night and 100 nights after, Gao's A4 papers became a diary. It chronicles the increasing confusion, anxiety and despair of a woman who may never know how she lost her husband.