US EditionIndia’s Maharashtra State Deputy Chief Minister Dies in Plane Crash
Ajit Pawar and four others died when their Learjet 45 crashed during an attempted emergency landing at Baramati airport, with all five onboard confirmed dead by the DGCA.
- On Wednesday , Ajit Pawar, Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister, died when a privately chartered plane crash-landed near Baramati, Pune district, after flying from Mumbai and burst into flames.
- En route to campaign events, Ajit Pawar, Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister, left Mumbai this morning after a Cabinet Committee meeting on Tuesday and was heading to Baramati, Pune district, to attend four public gatherings for Zilla Parishad elections.
- The Learjet 45 involved was operated by VSR, registered VT-SSK with six seats; around 8:30 AM, visuals showed wreckage engulfed in smoke as NDRF teams responded.
- Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis ordered relief efforts, while PM Modi praised the Deputy Chief Minister's understanding and passion for empowering the poor, with Rajnath Singh expressing deep shock.
- Pawar's death refocuses attention on the Pawar family legacy shaping Maharashtra's cooperative movement, while Ajit Pawar's 2023 split from Sharad Pawar's faction reshaped state coalitions under the BJP‑Shiv Sena alliance.
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Maharashtra's chief deputy minister, Ajit Pawar, died in a plane crash this Wednesday. Four more people died in the tragedy.
Deputy chief minister of India’s Maharashtra state among 5 dead in air charter crash
The deputy chief minister of India's wealthiest state of Maharashtra, Ajit Pawar, died on Wednesday, along with four other people on board, when his charter aircraft went down in flames.
Fadnavis, Shinde pay last respects to late Ajit Pawar in Baramati; AAIB begins probe
Meanwhile, as part of the investigation into the crash, Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau (AAIB) officials were present at the office of VSR Ventures Private Limited, which operates the ill-fated charter plane. The AAIB team was seen placing boxes of documents into vehicles.
Ajit Pawar Plane Crash: What We Know About the Pilots & Sequence of Events
Captains Sumit Kapur and Shambhavi Pathak, the pilots who were flying the ill-fated aircraft carrying Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar, were among the five people who died in the plane crash on Wednesday, 28 January.
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