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MUMBAI: Low visibility did set off the series of events that led to Wednesday Learjet crash that killed deputy chief minister Ajit Pawar and four others, said senior pilots who analysed the CCTV footage of last seven seconds of the accident. The fixed CCTV camera installed at Gojubavi village gram panchayat office that captured the…
NEW DELHI: The sudden death of Ajit Pawar has left his party, the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP), with many challenges. After losing its most skilful political manager, the party is now in a Catch-22 situation over a possible merger with the rival faction, while also keeping the alliance with the BJP intact.As “Ajit Dada” was…
NEW DELHI: The ministry of civil aviation (MoCA) on Thursday issued a statement on the investigation into the plane crash at Baramati airport that killed Maharashtra deputy chief minister Ajit Pawar and four others on Wednesday. The ministry said the probe into the Learjet 45 aircraft crash is progressing expeditiously.In a post on X, the…
THANE: A pall of gloom descended on Vitawa, Kalwa, on Wednesday after news emerged of the death of Vidip Jadhav, a personal security officer (PSO) of deputy chief minister Ajit Pawar, in an air crash that also claimed the life of the politician.Jadhav, a 2009-batch police constable, had served as the deputy chief minister’s security…
NAGPUR: “It was Ashadhi Ekadashi and I kept chanting the name of Lord Pandurang in the tense moments,” recalled Ajit Pawar while narrating a frightening mid-air experience during a flight to Gadchiroli in July 2024 — an anecdote that has resurfaced poignantly following his death in a plane crash on Wednesday.Pawar was travelling from Nagpur…
PUNE: The plane crash on Wednesday that killed deputy chief minister Ajit Pawar and four others has raised questions about aviation weather protocols — particularly the pre-flight weather briefing procedures for chartered aircraft and the visibility conditions during landing.The Learjet 45, which departed from Mumbai and crashed near the Baramati airstrip, was operating as a…
BARAMATI: Police personnel identified the body of deputy chief minister Ajit Pawar through his wristwatch and sitting position on the aircraft.Superintendent of police, Pune Rural, Sandeep Singh Gill told TOI, “Our team inspected all the bodies recovered from the crash site and identified the deputy chief minister’s body by studying his wristwatch. The police personnel…
The Maharashtra state government has declared a three day state mourning after the passing away of Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar. The veteran leader of Nationalist Congress Party, died in a plane crash on Wednesday morning in Baramati.Along with Pawar, his personal security officer, an aide, and two crew members comprising the pilot in command…
NEW DELHI: Veteran Maharashtra leader and NCP chief Ajit Pawar‘s uncle Sharad Pawar on Wednesday ruled out conspiracy theory over the death of his nephew, who died in a fatal plane crash earlier in the day.In a first reaction to Ajit Pawar’s death, the NCP(SP) chief said that Ajit Pawar’s death was just an accident…
PUNE: Baramati, the Pawar family’s pocket borough, which shaped Ajit Pawar’s rise under the towering influence of his uncle Sharad Pawar, was also the town where the Maharashtra deputy chief minister breathed his last in a plane crash on Wednesday. The irony was stark: the constituency that made Ajit Pawar a political force also became…
