hasan hasna area. there are no indications from authorities there in the area that there was any sort of terrorist activity or shot down out of the sky. that is the question, of course, is a very volatile region. russia, it goes without saying, suddenly involved in the syrian civil war in a very direct way. all of that suggests perhaps there could have been foul play. this plane was almost at the apex of this assent. 23 minutes total in the air. landing.mergency at that point the plane made a very rapid dissent 6,000 feet per minute way out of the normal parameter s for a plane dissent and disappeared out of radar. some of the reasoning behind the reports that it could not have been struck down from the ground is because of the aircraft s altitude. that s right.