Swedish police detain man on diverted bomb threat plane

Police have detained and are questioning the man said to be carrying explosives on board a Pakistan International Airlines Boeing 777, which was diverted to Sweden while en route to Pakistan from Canada.

The incident began after a woman called Canadian police after the plane had taken off and said a man on board had explosives with him.

An airport bus carries passengers away from a Pakistan Airlines jet which landed at Arlanda Airport near Stockholm following the bomb threat today, September 25, 2010.




Canadian police informed the pilot and the plane landed at Stockholm’s Arlanda airport as it was in Swedish airspace.


“He has been detained,” said police spokesman Kjell Lindgren. The man was detained while the passengers were getting off the plane during an evacuation.


Stockholm district police spokesman Janne Hedlund said that no explosives had been found on the man. His baggage and the plane were being searched, he added.