AAIB preliminary report on plane crash near Baramati to be released very soon: Civil Aviation Minister

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Wreckage of the chartered level   carrying Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar prevarication  mangled and burnt aft  the craft  crashed during landing adjacent   Baramati airport, successful  Pune district. File

Wreckage of the chartered level carrying Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar prevarication mangled and burnt aft the craft crashed during landing adjacent Baramati airport, successful Pune district. File | Photo Credit: PTI

AAIB's preliminary study connected the Learjet 45 craft clang that killed Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar and 4 others volition beryllium released precise soon, Civil Aviation Minister K. Rammohan Naidu said connected Friday (February 13, 2026).

The Learjet 45 level that crashed adjacent Baramati airdrome connected January 28 belonged to VSR Ventures Pvt Ltd. Pawar and 4 others were killed successful the crash, which is being probed by the Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau (AAIB).

"Very soon we volition person the preliminary study of the investigation," Mr. Naidu said. He was speaking to reporters connected the sidelines of an lawsuit organised by existent property manufacture assemblage Naredco.

Pawar, his idiosyncratic information serviceman and attendant, arsenic good arsenic 2 cockpit unit — pilot-in-command Sumit Kapur and archetypal serviceman Shambhavi Pathak — were killed erstwhile the Learjet 45 craft crashed during its 2nd landing attempt.

"The probe is progressing expeditiously, and the Black Box of the ill-fated craft has been recovered," the civilian aviation ministry had said connected January 30.

On February 10, NCP (SP) MLA Rohit Pawar alleged that determination was crushed to fishy sabotage successful the tragic aerial clang that killed his uncle Ajit Pawar and demanded a broad probe by aggregate adept agencies.

Published - February 13, 2026 08:47 p.m. IST

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