A plane carrying 273 people bound from Canada for Pakistan landed on Saturday at Stockholm's Arlanda airport because of a bomb threat on board, airport and police officials said.
The pilot decided to land the Boeing 777 after the Canadian police received a tip that a passenger on board was carrying explosives, Stockholm police spokeswoman Sussie Illum said.
The plane landed safely at Arlanda airport and was parked at the end of the landing strip as the police prepared to remove the passenger. "We are not evacuating the plane," Illum said. "We are going in to apprehend this person."
The plane was on its way from Toronto to Karachi, Pakistan, when the pilot requested permission to land in Stockholm, Arlanda airport spokesman Anders Bredfall said. The airport remained open to air traffic.