Ah it makes sense why that Google translation I did was referring to "beech". I was like how the f am I supposed to understand this?!
From ABCNewsAU:
Reports have suggested pro-Russian separatists shot down the jet with a Buk surface-to-air missile.
The Buk - which means beech tree in Russia - is a 1970s vintage, truck-mounted, radar-guided missile system, codenamed SA-11 Gadfly by Cold War NATO adversaries.
It fires a 5.7-metre, 55kg missile up to 28 kilometres
Armed separatists were hindering search efforts at the crash site, the head of Ukraine's emergency services said.
"The search work is difficult because we are talking about a big radius ... but also because armed terrorists who are on the spot are hampering things," Serhiy Bochkovsky told journalists
Ukraine's president Petro Poroshenko has called for an international investigation into the air disaster.
"I just concluded a conversation with the prime minister of the Netherlands. I offered our condolences and on behalf of Ukraine invited Dutch experts to take part in an open investigation into this act of terrorism.
I would like to draw your attention to the fact that we are not calling it an accident, but an act of terrorism."
BREAKING: In a statement, Eurocontrol - the European organisation for the safety of air navigation - says MH17 was flying in open airspace, but about 1,000 feet above a closed section of airspace.
According to our information, the aircraft was flying at Flight Level 330 (approximately 10,000 metres/33,000 feet) when it disappeared from the radar.
This route had been closed by the Ukrainian authorities from ground to flight level 320 but was open at the level at which the aircraft was flying.