Deputy state coroner Iain West on Wednesday handed down findings into the deaths of 17 Victorian residents killed in the disaster on July 17 last year.
All 298 people on board the Malaysia Airlines flight, including 38 Australian nationals and residents, died when the plane was downed over eastern Ukraine.
It's thought Russian-backed rebels shot down the jet, which was travelling from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur.
Among the Victorians killed were Albert and Maree Rizk, of Sunbury.
Their daughter Vanessa on Tuesday described her father as "the most loyal, hilarious, intelligent man".
She and brother James were comforted that their parents, who were returning from a holiday, were together.
But they will never get closure until someone is convicted, she said.
"We will always pray that justice will appear someday," Vanessa said.
Mr West on Wednesday found that the victims died as a result of "injury sustained in high altitude aircraft disruption".
Professor David Ranson, of the Victorian Institute of Forensic Medicine, told the inquest "injury" could refer to a wide variety of damage to the body.
The MH17 disaster had a profound impact all over the world, especially when it became known that the plane was shot down, Mr West said.
"Many questions were raised, including questions about what exactly occurred, why the aeroplane was flying across an area of armed conflict and who is to blame for the crash," he said.
The 17 Victorians died as a result of the actions of others, but he could not making any finding about who caused their death.
The criminal investigation is ongoing.
The Dutch Safety Board report found that the plane disintegrated after detonation of a warhead from a Russian-brand surface-to-air BUK missile above the left side of the cockpit.
Australian Federal Police Detective Superintendent Andrew Donoghue on Tuesday told the inquest they were unable to confirm the origin of the specific missile.
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