They were falling from the sky: Witnesses of MH17 crash tell their stories

The site of crashed Malaysian plane (screenshot from RT video)

Remains of the bodies, crashed parts of the plane, still burning engines – that was the dramatic and gruesome picture that local residents saw when the Malaysian plane crashed in the sky over Donetsk Region in eastern Ukraine.Malaysia Airlines MH17 plane crash in Ukraine LIVE UPDATESNo signs of trouble were in the air on Thursday afternoon - the day of the tragedy which killed 298 people on board the plane heading from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur.My wife and I were having dinner when we heard a strange noise sounding like clapping," says Dmitry, a local resident.When they went out of the house, they saw a body - more precisely, the remains of a body - lying nearby. Dmitry believes that it must have fallen from a high altitude.