Daily Telegraph.
100 killed in Milan aircrash
(Filed: 08/10/2001)
MORE than 100 people are feared dead in a collision at Milan airport when an SAS plane preparing for take-off hit a smaller craft and crashed into a building this morning.
Officials said that rescue workers were still recovering bodies at the scene, but gave no further details.
All 104 passengers on the SAS jet were believed to have been killed, as well as the four people aboard the small Cessna plane it was reported to have hit at Linate airport. The Cessna belonged to a German firm.
The airport management company, SEA, said that between 20 and 25 people would normally have been working in the maintenance building destroyed by the crash.
According to initial reports, SAS flight SK 686 was preparing to take off for Copenhagen when it made a sudden manoeuvre to avoid a small plane.
However, the SAS plane, a Boeing MD-87, hit the smaller plane before ploughing into an airport building and bursting into flames, reports said.