Police officers arrived at the home of the captain, 53-year-old Zaharie Ahmad Shah in Shah Alam, on Saturday afternoon, shortly after Najib ended his news conference.
Zaharie has apparently set up the Boeing 777 simulator at his home.
Pictures posted by Zaharie on his Facebook page show a simulator with three computer monitors, a tangle of wires and several panels.
However, Penang chief police officer Abdul Rahim Hanafi said he had yet to receive orders to search Zaharie's family home in Balik Pulau, Penang.
"We have yet to receive instructions from IGP Khalid Abu Bakar to search Zaharie's home here. We have not done it here," he told Malaysiakini.
Investigators had confirmed that an aircraft tracked by military radar was the lost Malaysia Airlines flight MH370, after its communications were likely switched off before it reached the east coast of Malaysia a week ago, Najib said.
He said analysis of the plane's last communication with satellites placed it in one of two corridors: a northern stretch from northern Thailand to the border of Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan, or a southern stretch from Indonesia to the southern Indian Ocean.
China demands accurate info
Meanwhile, Reuters reported that China's Foreign Ministry said today it was demanding that Malaysia keep providing more thorough and accurate information about the missing plane.
According to China's Foreign Ministry, it "paid very close attention" to the news.
"We demand that the Malaysian side continue to provide to China more thorough, accurate information," the ministry said, adding that it was sending a technical team to Malaysia to help with the probe.
"We will also get in touch with relevant countries and international organisations to understand, study and determine (what happened)."
The ministry repeated a demand for Malaysia to step up its search, and asked it to involve more countries in the effort.
"China will also promptly adjust its search deployments and ask countries which may be involved to provide assistance," it added.
Separately, China's Defence Ministry said that two warships which had been searching in the Gulf of Thailand were on their way to the Malacca Strait, one of the world's busiest waterways.
The fate of the Malaysian Airlines Boeing 777-200ER has been shrouded in mystery since it disappeared off Malaysia's east coast less than an hour into a March 8 scheduled flight from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing.
But investigators have increasingly focused on the possibility it was flown off-course by the pilot or co-pilot, or someone else on board with detailed knowledge of how to fly and navigate a large commercial aircraft.
Still clueless
China has repeatedly asked Malaysia for clear information, and to provide answers for the increasingly frantic family members of Chinese passengers aboard the aircraft.
Wen Wancheng, whose son was on the plane, said he felt no clearer about what had really happened.
"They ought to be sharing information publicly and transparently with everyone in the world," he told reporters at a Beijing hotel where the relatives had gathered.
"It's the responsibility of Malaysia and Malaysian Airlines to deal with the missing plane."
Another family member, who declined to give his name, said he was glad at least of progress in the probe, and held out hope the passengers were still alive.
"In the overall view of the situation, it's good news. This means that there's still hope that our relatives are alive," he told reporters.
There were 153 Chinese nationals on board the ill-fated fight.
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