conversation. you ve been looking at some of this publicly available flight data. let s talk about that as we go through some of the images we do have available. let s pause it. let s pause it. this is pretty telling to me. i m going to let it rerack here. you can see this is an airplane in freefall. this looks like a streak of fuel. this this was a shoot down, we re just speculating, a missile would lock on to typically the hottest part of the airplane. this looks like an airplane broken apart, spinning down, traveling upside down inverted. let me ask you how strange it would be for an airplane at 28,000 feet, cruising altitude to suddenly break apart and transmit no more flight data. unusual failure. let just talk about a structural
we don t know the flight path exactly. we just know this is similar to this plane making a trip to st. petersburg where it has flown many times. it was on that heading. you can deduce once the airplane gets up to altitude, you set the auto pilot, barring any sort of reroutes or changing from air traffic control, the plane s mostly going to go in a straight line. we were able to see at least from the data right now that it picks up just northwest of moscow and it drops off just southwest of tver. there s a pretty good sample size that shows it plane flying along no problems for a relatively long period of time. and then it falls out of the sky. a lot of questions of course, 28,000 feet, cruising altitude, flying straight, no problems and then it stops transmitting data as it falls out of the sky.
failure. if the airplane broke into several parts suddenly, if there was a catastrophic failure of the airplane itself. those were extremely, extreme lip rare. especially when you talk about an airplane like this. we re talking about a private jet but it is also an airliner that s used very commonly around the world and reliably. so there s no real track record of anything like that ever happening with an airplane like this. if that did happen, you would have heard about it and also there would be a huge international response to pause the flying of something like this. look what happened after the max, there was a software issue. if this happened, the plane would not be flying. there was an engine we re able to see in some of this video some of the registration parkings on the video here. it s not in the it s on the phone video but rather in the video of the crash site.
i think we do have that one but we don t have it loaded. we re able to deduce a little bit here this is the video now of the engine on the left side of the screen there, that vertical video, the registration parkings typically printed on there. you can make out the number 2795. this airplane that was registered to prigozhin, tail number 2795. this was likely an airplane belonging to prigozhin, the wagner boss and the data is really interesting. it tells a lot here. the data says this was flying at 28,000 level, level of cruising altitude, 513 knots, 585 miles
an hour, stable speed, not climbing, not descending. not something where there would be a catastrophic emergency where you would need to descend very quickly and get down to breathable air very quickly or headed northwest on a 306 degree heading, west northwest, wasn t turning, wasn t doing anything out of the ordinary. so this sort of says that this airplane was in a normal cruising position, that nothing was really going on. so of course not only will there be an investigation here by the federal authorities in russia, but also we ll wait to see what other agencies ultimately glom on to this. i ve reached out to the federal aviation administration here in the u.s., i ve reached out to the national transportation safety board, sometimes they re party to especially international investigations that have a lot of heft. so they have not necessarily been contacted just yet, we ll wait to hear from them as this sort of unfolds but a lot of key