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How does someone become a naked body? The fall must have just completely stripped off their clothing.

And they're lying there, and some of them are in rather good shape. You first look at them and you wouldn't think that this person is no longer living.

I remember seeing an older teenager who was completely naked and laying on the road

and he looked more or less fine.

It looked like he had lied down to take a nap.

A lot of these people looked like mannequins.

Others were completely ripped apart. There were bodies that

were still strapped into the seats of the plane, and their seat belts were fastened and they were slouched over with their heads down and arms forward

Almost like you would glance over in your seat while you're on an airliner and see the person next to who's falling asleep and kind of fallen forward.

You kind of wait for that person to jolt up, you know, because there's now a pain in their

neck or something. Except these people weren't moving at all. It was just really, really surreal.

I'm Elliot Higgins and you're listening to the Bellingap

Podcast season 1, MH17.

Episode 1, the People Who Fell from the sky.

This is amateur video of a burning passenger jet, with around 300 passengers and crew aboard.

It's a region where death is always quite close.

It's a rough, tough place.

Body, so many of them, some in the fields, some by the road. Now the entire world is asking how

this tragedy happened.

There was people at work on the crime scene trying to cover up the truth. It was a clear and bright July afternoon in 2014 when 298 people fell out of the sky,

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