A 41-year-old Swedish man has been arrested at Amsterdam’s Schiphol airport after flying for years on a false pilots licence, the Telegraaf reports.

The man was on the point of taking off on a Corendon Airlines Boeing 737 flight to Ankara with 101 people on board. The airline had been tipped off about the impending arrest.
According to the Telegraaf, the man claims to have completed 10,000 flying hours over the past 13 years for airlines in Belgium, Britain and Italy. He lives in Milan.
The paper did not give details about the other airlines involved.
The man used to hold a pilots licence but not for passenger transport, the paper said. The licence has since expired, the paper said.
A lawyer for Corendon Airlines, which has employed the man for the past two years, said the fake pilot had never flown unaccompanied.
Corendon has operations in the Netherlands and Belgium and flies mainly holiday flights to Mediteranean destinations.