Arrest passenger after plane makes emergency landing in Sweden

 Police arrest passenger in Sweden

Authorities arrested a passenger after a plane made an emergency landing in Sweden on Saturday morning, police said.

The plane -- which had 260 people onboard and was flying from Canada to Pakistan -- landed after a caller told authorities that a passenger had explosives with him.

All passengers were later evacuated from the plane, Stockholm Police spokesman Kjell Lindgren said.

The man arrested is suspected of a threat against air traffic, Lindgren said, but declined to say whether the man had any explosives.

Authorities will interrogate the man and thoroughly search the plane, he said. Earlier Saturday, police said bomb technicians were at the scene.

"The arrest was made in a very nondramatic fashion," he said.

Pakistan International Airlines Flight 782 was heading from Toronto, Canada, to Karachi, Pakistan, when it landed because of "security reasons," said Sultan Hassan, an airline spokesman.

The plane landed at Arlanda airport in Stockholm, Sweden, at 7:30 a.m. (1:30 a.m. ET) Saturday after a woman calling from a pay phone in Canada tipped off police that a man on the plane had explosives, police spokesman Janne Hedlund said.

Canadian authorities contacted the plane while it was in Swedish airpsace, Hedlund said.

The man is from Pakistan and has a Canadian passport, Hedlund said.

Authorities do not know whether the man has explosives, what kind of explosives could be in his possession or whether he knows the person who notified authorities, Hedlund said.

There was no direct bomb threat against the flight, he said.

Hassan said he did not have more specific details about the cause of the diversion. All passengers onboard are safe, he said.

(source:cnn.com)