Who were there onboard the plane with Ajit Pawar that crashed in Maharashtra’s Baramati?
According to Flight Radar, the flight took off from Mumbai at 8.10 am and it disappeared from radar around 8.45 am.
Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar and four other persons were killed after an aircraft carrying them crashed in Pune district on Wednesday. The incident was reported when the plane carrying Pawar (66) and others landed near Baramati, officials said. According to Flight Radar, the flight took off from Mumbai at 8.10 am and it disappeared from radar around 8.45 am.
Ajit Pawar was traveling to Baramati from Mumbai to address public meetings as part of the campaign for the February 5 zilla parishad elections in the state. There were five people on board when the aircraft crashed at 8.50 am, a police official said.
Who was on the plane with Ajit Pawar?
• Vindip Jadhav – Bodyguard
• Pinky Mali – Cabin Crew
• Sumit Kapoor – Captain
• Shambhavi Patil – Captain
Superintendent of Police, Sandip Singh Gill, said that after the crash, there was a fire. "People onboard were immediately taken to the hospital," he said.
Poor visibility near the runway witnessed
A source told PTI that the aircraft pilot had mentioned about poor visibility near the runway, before the aircraft attempted the landing. The Learjet 45 (LJ45), a mid-size business jet aircraft produced by the Learjet Division of Bombardier Aerospace, went off the runway while attempting to land at Baramati airport and burst into flames, the source said.
Pawar is survived by wife Sunetra, a member of Rajya Sabha and two sons, Parth and Jay. Pawar's Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) had contested the recent municipal corporation elections in Pune and Pimpri Chinchwad in alliance with his uncle Sharad Pawar's NCP (SP).
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