Airport evacuated in Sweden!

karlstag airport in sweden has been evacuated after a pilot reported that he may have seen a suicide bomber,

This is still breaking,

so links will follow shortly

This happened half hour ago and no arrests have been made at this time

[edit on 11-11-2005 by asala]

I don't see anything on Reuters, the BBC website or Fox News.
Where did you hear about this?

I have friends there, also its just being repeorted in brief on skynews TV

from what i know, it was a Scandinavion pilot (sp) who reported seeing a man looking very odd, This threat is being taken very serious and the whole airport has ben evacuated,

hopefully this is just a scare,

but ill try and get links as soon as it hits the net

Here we go,

www.sky.com...



also New breaking on this, a news agency are saying that there had been a telephone warning that there was a bomb in the airport,

The airport in Karlstad was evacuated at 1:40 p.m. (7:40 a.m. EST), after a Scandinavian Airlines employee reported that "a possible suicide candidate" had been spotted at the airport, police spokeswoman Yvonne Carlsten said.

Erik Soderberg, a spokesman for the Swedish civil aviation authority told Swedish news agency TT that someone had left a bomb at the airport. He said someone called with a bomb threat at 12:47 (6:47 a.m. EST).
AP

[edit on 11-11-2005 by Riwka]

The airport, which opened in 1997, has flights to Scandinavian cities. About 100 people work at the airport.

Sounds like a pretty small airport.
I wonder why someone would target that instead of a larger airport.

[edit on 11-11-2005 by AceOfBase]

Originally posted by AceOfBase
Sounds like a pretty small airport.
I wonder why someone would target that instead of a larger airport.

This is probably nothing, but smaller airports would be targeted if the goal was to take control of the aircraft or blow it up over populated areas due the usually lax security found at small regional airports over large international airports.

[edit on 11/11/2005 by djohnsto77]

16:05 Phone call triggers false bomb alert at Swedish airport (Reuters)

Good news