That is where this gets really eerie. and investigations in the u.s. typically investigators would go through and rule things out. was this a midair collision, was this something like a structural failure where the airplane broke apart mid flight, was this another type of emergency, or was this airplane shot down? and that is the thing that investigators will really have to look at here if this is, in fact, a transparent investigation. we ll get to that in a second. let s look at the flight path because there are interesting clues here. this is the data from flight dwar 24. and that data says that this airplane was at 28,000 feet going 590 miles per hour on a northwesterly heading, going northwest from moscow to davair. then the tracking suddenly stopped. that says that there is something that really went awry here. the airplane was level it wasn t climbing or descending. it didn t suddenly fall out of the sky on its own. when you start piecing things together, that is when things real