In the initial days after MH17 was shot down I collected all the photos of the cockpit section crash site and organised them so I had effectively a crowdsourced Google Street View version of the crash site, which helped make the area of impact damage more obvious.
https://twitter.com/MollyQuell/status/1402185990551359488
It was very clear at that point where the vast majority of the damage was done, and that it had come from outside the aircraft, so I could confirm very early on it was definitely an external explosion, not a bomb placed on the aircraft.
I remember a little community forming on Twitter and on forums just closely examining every part of the aircraft, trying to figure out which piece of debris fit where. This image was one that came out of those early efforts. 
Of course, you had the conspiracy theorists insisting all those holes were from an SU-25 firing its cannon at the side of the aircraft, like that grouping was something that could be realistically achieved when it obviously wasn't.
I also remember the conspiracy theorists claiming a piece of the interior of the aircraft was actually an expanding rod from a missile launched from an SU-25. They basically went from one theory to another for years. Basically they wasted their lives.
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