According to the Government Office, it was due to “a technical error”.
But according to Expressen, which has read the Defense Staff’s incident report, the windshield in the cockpit cracked at an altitude of 13,000 meters.
On the plane sat Minister of Justice Gunnar Strömmer (M) and Minister of Foreign Affairs Maria Malmer Stenergard (M).
In the incident report it can be read that “the commander decided to abort the mission, followed the emergency checklist, reduced the altitude and returned to the starting airport Arlanda for landing”.
The meeting with the Turkish government in Ankara has not yet taken place.