Death toll rises to 114 in Milan plane crash

Officials are ruling out terrorism after an airliner crashed into a building at a Milan airport.

More than 100 people are feared dead after the plane swerved off the runway at Linate Airport.

The SAS aircraft swerved to avoid a Cessna plane, which the Interior Ministry says was on the wrong runway.

The SAS jet rammed into a small baggage deposit building, sparking a fire. Some of the victims are airport workers who were in the building.

Italian Transport Minister Pietro Lunardi has confirmed 114 died in the Milan airport crash and four are missing.

More than 24 bodies have been pulled from the wreckage, as firefighters work to contain the blaze, says Domenico De Pinto, a provincial fire service official.

County fire officials say access to the fuselage and cabin of the jetliner is being made difficult because it hit a cement beam as it collided with the baggage storage building.

Four of the dead were aboard the smaller Cessna aircraft, which was destroyed by the fire.

The two pilots were German, and the two passengers Italian, says Alessandra Tripodi, a spokeswoman at the Milan Prefect's office.

Two of the injured from the baggage depot have been taken to Niguarda hospital, and are in a serious condition, spokesman Savino Bafati says.

Another airport worker has been taken to San Raffaele hospital for shock.