Do They Have Any Idea Where That Airplane Is?

NOTE: It has now been one year since this plane was reported missing. From all I've read or heard on the news, no debris has ever been found, nor were there any reports of an explosion or unexplained fire reported by people on land, that might have indicated a ground crash. Just think of the poor families having to deal with the unexplained disappearance of their loved ones. I did this back in June of 2014, but I wanted to post it again.  

Back on March 8 of this year (2014), Malaysian Flight 370 was reported missing with 239 passengers and crew on board. The torture for the families of the missing people has had to be terrible. Since the very beginning there has been a farcical attempt by Malaysian authorities to explain where the plane might be, with all sorts of twists and turns. All the inept handling of the situation has caused even more excruciating pain for the traumatized families. Various nations, including the United States and China, have committed resources of some type to trying to locate the plane, which authorities have assumed crashed somewhere in the Indian Ocean. In this modern, mixed up, crazy world we live in, where technology has given governments the likely ability to know what their citizens ate for breakfast, these same countries can't locate, or even state with total certainty, what the hell happened to a large airplane carrying 239 people. I just wish the authorities would come out and state the obvious, "We don't know where this plane is." Further, if they don't know where it is, how do they know it didn't land somewhere? I know that's wishful thinking, but it's hardly less credible than all of the places they say this plane went down. Authorities have had this plane located all over the place, but nothing has been found, not even debris of any kind. A scriptwriter couldn't make up the kind of stuff the poor families have had to put up with.

WORD HISTORY:
Bit-This word, closely related to "bite," and generally meaning "a small amount," goes back to Indo European "bheid," which had the notion "to split." This gave its Old Germanic offspring "bitanan," meaning "to bite," and then the derived noun form "biton," meaning "a bite." This gave Old English (Anglo-Saxon) "bita" ("a piece bitten off, a morsel"), which later became just "bit," with the meaning expanding to "a small amount." This also came to be used for "the piece on a drill" and "the piece for a horse's mouth," and it likely influenced the computer term "bit," which is a contraction of "binary digit." The other Germanic languages have forms of the word which are the same as English "bite," but German has "bißchen" (also written "bisschen") and the more southern "bissel," ^ both meaning "a little, a bit, a small amount;" and Low German has "beten," meaning "a small amount, a bit," thus the same general meanings as their English cousin.

^ The Germanic dialects that spread southward in Europe underwent some pronunciation changes (called "sound shifts"). These dialects generally spread into hilly and mountainous terrain, as compared to northern Europe, and they came to be called "High German," which later came to provide much of the basis for modern standard German. One of the sound changes was "often" for "t," which became "s" or "ss" in High German; thus English has "kettle," but German has "Kessel" (all German nouns are capitalized), English has "white," but German has "weiss," and, as above, English has "bit," but German has "biss(chen). The "-chen" is called a diminutive; that is, it makes something "smaller" or "endearing;" thus "bißchen" = literally "a small bite."