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Fri, 12 Jun, 2015 12:07:44 AM FTimes – STT Report, June 12  A technician walks next to the tails of SAS Boeing 737 aircrafts at Stockholm Arlanda airportÆs Terminal 4 north of Stockholm, Sweden, on November 11, 2012. Scandinavian airline SAS revealed a cost-cutting programme on November 12, 2012, including wage cuts, job cuts and asset disposals, in a bid to secure financing and convince its owners that the company has a future. Photo – AFP / Lehtikuva. The Finnish police arrested a man in Helsinki in connection to a bomb threat made on SAS passenger airline, reported the Swedish tabloid Aftonbladet.
The airliner which was scheduled to depart for Finland on Wednesday at 10:30 pm was grounded at Stockholm Arlanda airport because it was subjected to a bomb threat which came from Finland.
A Swedish police spokesman told the Swedish paper Aftonbladet that the threat was made orally at the Helsinki-Vantaa airport.
“As far as I understand, he (the Finnish man) came to the airport in Helsinki and made the threat there,” said the spokesman, Kjell Lindgren.
According to Lindgren, the Finnish police arrested the man and informed the threat to the Swedish authorities.
According to the online Swedish newspaper Expressen, 53 passengers were aboard the grounded plane.
The passengers are reported to have responded calmly to the situation, a representative of SAS told the Expressen.
“Our focus is to take care of the passengers. We have experienced staff who explained to the passengers what is at stake. For the sake of their safety their aircraft was changed,” the SAS representative told the Expressen.
Xinhua adds: The threat was made at the Helsinki-Vantaa airport in Finland. The Finnish police told the local media that the man was a foreigner and had been detained.
The case is being investigated as “unfounded notice about a danger”.
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