Does it make sense to let scripture interpret scripture?  I think so.  Let's
take a look at Ezek 39 and see how this sheds light on Matt 24:28 and the
verse about "where there is a dead body, there the vultures will gather"

Ezek 39:11 "'On that day I will give Gog a burial place in Israel, in the
valley of those who travel east toward the Sea. It will block the way of
travelers...'For seven months the house of Israel will be burying them in
order to cleanse the land...'Men will be regularly employed to cleanse the
land....Call out to every kind of bird and all the wild animals: 'Assemble
and come together from all around to the sacrifice I am preparing for you,
the great sacrifice on the mountains of Israel. There you will eat flesh and
drink blood. 18 You will eat the flesh of mighty men and drink the blood of
the princes of the earth as if they were rams and lambs, goats and bulls-all
of them fattened animals from Bashan. 19 At the sacrifice I am preparing for
you, you will eat fat till you are glutted and drink blood till you are
drunk. 20 At my table you will eat your fill of horses and riders, mighty
men and soldiers of every kind,' declares the Sovereign LORD . " (Ezek
39:11...20)

So perhaps Yeshua was alluding to the TIMING of the events He described.
Sounds to me like He was alluding to Ezek 39 and telling us that the events
He was describing would be fullfilled a tthe same time Ezek 39 would be
fullfilled.  To the birds, he says "There you will eat flesh and DRINK
BLOOD.", but to humans, G-d has said, "you must not eat meat that has its
lifeblood still in it." (Gen/Ber 9:4)

There may be a deeper spiritual meaning to this that no one has discussed
yet.  I suspect that there is given the level of detail about it.  But I
doubt that such spiritual meaning is one in which we disregard the literal
reading of the text in favor of saying the 'dead' represents one group of
people and the 'vultures' another.  Instead, it probably will happen exactly
as desribed, while retaining some poetic symbolic value when it happens.
I'll give an example of what I mean by that in another post.

Shalom, Joe