SCIUTTO: The agonizing wait for information about Flight 370 is almost too much for some families to bear. Our Atika Shubert talked to one father, waiting for news about his son. Sadly, he remembers the image of his grandchildren begging their dad not to take that flight.</s>ATIKA SHUBERT, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: For family of the passengers on Flight 370, the wait is excruciating. "If I had two or three," this father tells us, "I might be able to accept it. But this is my only son." Gurusami Subramaniam is waiting for his son, 34-year-old, Puspanahtan Subramaniam, an IT specialist who is headed to Beijing for a new job. "Surely they must find the plane," he says. "That's all I hope for. The whole world is out looking for it." But I ask him, what if they don't? He answers, if not, well, only god knows. It's in god's hands. It's fate. He tells me he worked 20 years as a security guard to put his son through college. And at home, a wife and two young children also wait for him. "He was responsible for everything," his father says. "Even these clothes I'm wearing. Whatever country he was in, he would call and once a week he would come see us with the whole family. He really took care of us." (</s>On camera): He was telling me that the two younger children didn't want to see their father go to Beijing. So they clung to his legs and refused to let him go out the door until he promised to bring them chocolates and presents when he got home. So that has to be -- it's very sad. (</s>Voice-over): Before we leave, he tells us to call any time with any news we have. He hardly sleeps he says. And now he never turns his phone off. Not even for a moment. Atika Shubert, CNN, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
Father Fears the Worst for His Son