diplomacy. according to the airline, the pilots did not request to fly together the plane vanished, and the boeing 777 was not carrying any additional fuel. nbc s kerry sanders is joining me now with the very latest on the investigation, and with a good day to you, kerry, what more do we know about the plane and the pilots? alex, as we enter day nine, malaysian officials today are saying that the search area is no longer concentrated just over waters. we take a look at the map here, they announced at a press conference this morning, they are now looking over land, up here. that s mostly in the central asia area. 11 countries that comprise that area. and for investigators who suspect the pilot and co-pilot may have hatched a deadly plan, new information may shoot that theory down, as the airline has revealed, the cockpit crew did not request to fly together. today the u.s. navy has its p-3s and p-8s off the coast of myanmar, also called burma.