Yes. To investigate evidence of possible shoot down. There were many witnesses who thought they saw a missile going up to the plane. The CIA concluded that the fuel spilling out of the exploded airplane and then igniting created the effect of fire steaking up to the plane when it was actually streaking down from the plane.
NBC 4 in NY was reporting they had amateur video showing the same thing . The FBI swooped in and took all copies.
There were also Navy warships in the area on military exercises.
The CIA concluded that the fuel spilling out of the exploded airplane and then igniting created the effect of fire steaking up to the plane when it was actually streaking down from the plane.
If there were only one witness the CIA might get away with this but there were multiple seeing the exact same thing from different angles
The CIA also put out a disinformation video animation of what happened. I thought that was a nice touch give the low-information types a cartoon and they will believe it and go on their merry way