Man who found victims of MH17 plane shot out of sky revealed disturbing detail about the bodies

Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 was the deadliest ever airliner shoot-down incidents in aviation history.

The tragedy occurred on 17 July 2014, when the aircraft - a Boeing 777-200ER - was shot down by Russian forces as it flew over Eastern Ukraine, while it was making its journey from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur.

It was not the first plane lost by the airline in 2014, as it infamously lost contact with flight MH370 four months prior, when it flew over the South China Sea, en route to Beijing from Kuala Lumpur.

All 283 passengers and 15 crew onboard were killed following the incident, with contact being lost with the aircraft when it was approximately 50 kilometres from Ukraine's border with Russia.

Wreckage and debris from the aircraft began to fall near Hrabove in Donetsk Oblask, happening during the war in Donbas over territory that was being controlled by Russia.

All 283 passengers and 15 crew onboard flight MH17 were sadly killed when it was shot down. (Pierre Crom/Getty Images)

Just one day after the crash, 181 of the 298 bodies were found among the wreckage and transported to Kharkiv, the second largest city in Ukraine - 270km (170 miles) north of the crash site - for further inspection.

Since the incident, three men have been found guilty of the attack, and have all been sentenced to life in prison.

The tragedy brings about a number of questions, but one that stands out in particular and may be one of the most eerie has been answered by one of the men on-site that was helping to clean up the bodies.

Local residents had been rained on with debris and dead bodies on 17 July, with one woman even saying that the impact of the objects from the sky made it feel like they were being bombed.

But upon closer inspection, authorities and residents both realised the eerie detail of a lot of the bodies at their feet.

The bodies found didn't have any clothes on. (Brendan Hoffman/Getty Images)

They either didn't have clothes on, or had the majority of them torn off or ripped up - but why was this?

One of the residents who was helping to clean the debris explained in a news report to Vice that it had something to do with the plane depressurising, causing people to fall out of it while it crashed back down to Earth.

He explained: "Some bodies were naked. The clothes got torn off them. We've been finding them and the clothes too.

"We found bodies in seats, they were falling with their seats."

The man cited the war against civilians, saying they have been left to clean up as no-one from the military was around to help.

Aviation safety expert Alan Diehl further backed the man's claims up when speaking to Daily Intelligencer.

"If the clothes are missing, usually that means that [the passenger] was probably either ejected from the plane or exposed to extreme wind blast going hundreds of miles an hour, falling out of the sky,” the former United States Air Force investigator explained.

Clothes of victims were blown off due to the extreme speed at which they fell. (DOMINIQUE FAGET/AFP via Getty Images)

He continued: “The effect of very high speed wind, or the slipstream, hitting the bodies can easily literally rip the clothing right off.”

Diehl then said that the amount the victim's clothes would be ripped would be based on where they were sitting, with those being thrown out through an opening being stripped naked, while those in the body of the plane that came down to the surface remaining mostly intact.

The expert cited the 'rapid decompression' in the plane, that would have caused passengers to pass out.

He also said: “The G-forces of the airplane spinning around probably meant, mercifully, that most of these people weren’t conscious on the way down.”