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The Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau (AAIB) connected Saturday (February 28, 2026) submitted its preliminary study into the level clang adjacent Baramati Ajit Pawar that killed Deputy Chief Minister of Maharashtra Ajit Pawar and 4 others connected January 28, 2026.
The study comes precisely a period aft a Learjet-45 craft owned by VSR Ventures crashed astatine Baramati airfield connected January 28.
In its interim information recommendations, the clang probe bureau called for tighter regulatory oversight of operations astatine smaller airfields, a reappraisal of licensing them, and urgent upgrades to landing and meteorological (MET) infrastructure.
The Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau’s interim study states that the probe is inactive underway, and the Cockpit Voice Recorder information is yet to beryllium downloaded with the assistance of U.S. transport clang probe body, National Transportation Safety Board.
“All the aspects of the mishap volition beryllium examined and investigated to bring retired the facts, basal cause(s) and contributory factor(s) starring to the accident,” the preliminary study said.
It has recommended respective interim information recommendations for the aviation information regulator, Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) to implement.
The AAIB study states that each flights landing astatine airports that don’t enactment instrumentality landing indispensable travel each laid-down protocols. It requires the DGCA to guarantee infrastructure is upgraded for safer formation operations, and adjacent reappraisal licensing of specified airfields.
“It is recommended that DGCA whitethorn instrumentality indispensable measures to heighten the landing immunodeficiency on with basal MET installation astatine these airports to cater for ample fig of chartered flying (including VIP flights) being carried retired astatine these airports. It is recommended that DGCA whitethorn cheque the feasibility of licensing these aerodromes for behaviour of harmless and regulated flying operations,” the study said.
Pawar (66), who had taken disconnected from Mumbai, and 4 different persons connected committee a Learjet 45 level died aft it crashed hardly 200 metres from the borderline of the tabletop airstrip astatine Baramati, his hometown successful Pune district, connected Wednesday morning.
The others killed successful the calamity were Captain Sumit Kapoor, who had a flying acquisition of 15,000 hours, co-pilot Captain Shambhavi Pathak, with 1,500 hours of flying experience, Pawar’s Personal Security Officer Vidip Jadhav and formation attendant Pinky Mali.
