Four-member DGCA team visits Ajit Pawar plane crash site in Baramati

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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.

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. | Photo Credit: PTI

A four-member squad of elder DGCA officials has visited the tract of the plane clang that killed Maharashtra Deputy CM Ajit Pawar and 4 others past period adjacent Baramati successful Pune district.

During their sojourn connected Wednesday (February 11), they reviewed the CCTV camera footage and videos linked to the January 28 incident, said section officials.

Ajit Pawar, Captain Sumit Kapoor, co-pilot Capt. Shambhavi Pathak, Personal Security Officer (PSO) Vidip Jadhav, and formation attendant Pinky Mali were killed erstwhile the Learjet craft they were connected committee crashed adjacent the Baramati airdrome successful Pune district.

According to a connection issued by the Ministry of Civil Aviation aft the decease of Pawar and 4 others aft the level crash, Baramati has an ‘uncontrolled airfield’ (one without a dedicated Air Traffic Control), and postulation accusation is provided by instructors/pilots from the section flying grooming organisations.

Union Civil Aviation Minister K. Ram Mohan Naidu had said the probe into the level clang would travel a time-bound approach.

The Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau (AAIB) and the Director General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) had visited the site, and the Black Box of the ill-fated craft had been recovered.

An authoritative connected January 30 stated that the Maharashtra Crime Investigation Department (CID) had initiated its probe into the level crash.

NCP (SP) MLA and precocious Ajit Pawar's nephew, Rohit Pawar, had raised respective questions regarding the series of events starring up to the level crash.

He alleged that determination was a crushed to fishy sabotage successful the tragic incidental and demanded a broad probe by aggregate adept agencies.

Published - February 12, 2026 09:14 americium IST

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