I don't know where the plane is or is not, but how long before we have it associated with Jack Bauer ?
It's a big plane relative to the size of a man, lost in a huge world relative to the size of a man.
We don't have radar everywhere. And the Malaysians haven't been straight with us through this whole ordeal.
But we have a government with god like powers. It can do anything and everything. Obama is god come to earth, a god-king who knows everything.
Look at our fears of a police state. If the American government has the power to rule us with a rod of fire then they must have the power to track every person on the planet.
I don't know if that was "purple" or not, but don't let's confuse the ability of our government to be a pain in the backside to us with the technical capability to be all-seeing/all-knowing. If we truly had that capability, the end of the Cold War and the current Russian shenanigans in Ukraine wouldn't have taken us by surprise.