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Disappearance, malaysian authorities said today that police searches of the pilot's and first captain's home and computers turned up nothing suspicious. malaysian fishes facing continued criticism for offering contradictory and confusing information to the public indicated the search had been expanded to a massive area. joining me, nbc news correspondent kerry sanders who's been covering this story. kerry, what are we to take of this? at first blush it seems deeply incriminating. greg feith offers caution about possible non-nefarious explanations. what's the takeaway? >> i think the takeaway i...

That data? >> i think all of the data that is possible has been squeezed out. >> okay. >> because as soon as the acars were turned off, the data part. the box, itself, wasn't turned off. that's how we got the ping, six hours of pings. the electronic box was still active. it was just the data downburst. once we lost that, we lost the transponder. the airplane went out of radar coverage and we don't have eyes in sky, the satellite data to track this airplane. now it's anyone's guess and we will not get any more data. if the airplane is found and we have a cockpit voice recorder and flight data r...

>> i know. can you do that? >> that have been deleted. they're saying they're giving it their best effort. obviously, though, adding to this, this is the defense minister who revealed this information, saying that the pilots in this captain shot is innocent until proven guilty of any wrongdoing. >> okay. >> but still, they're trying to get the files, obviously they become of great importance seeing they've been recently deleted. >> malaysian officials coughing up information. that's been another part of this story. there's been a call for more transparency on their part of the investigation. m...

But according to one retired 777 captain, one thing does remain clear. >> this would be a very elaborate scheme. they would have had very, very extensive training to pull this off. >> okay. extensive training. also deleted files in the pilot's home. bob hager, what do you make of all of this and how do you rate the latest information from a one to ten? greg feith gave it about a 7 or 8. >> i don't know that i'd rate it that high. i'd give it a 3 or 4. it's useful to know the pilot preprogrammed -- somebody in the cockpit preprogrammed the left turn. the malaysians probably know when. did they ...

Flight. a timeline that would seem to strongly suggest foul play by the co-pilot and anyone else active in the cockpit at the time. but, crucial caveat, former national transportation safety board investigator greg feith told nbc news this new information does not necessarily by itself indicate ill intentions. according to feith, "some pilots will program into an alternate flight path in the event of emergency. we don't know what the reason was for this particular flight plan, whether to go back to kuala lumpur or take the airplane somewhere away from beijing." this information follows a repor...