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MUMBAI/THANE: Pinky Mali, the 30-year-old flight attendant who died in the plane crash in Baramati along with deputy CM Ajit Pawar and three others, was cremated at Shivaji Park Crematorium in Dadar on Thursday.Her father, Shivkumar, has demanded a thorough probe into the incident.“The company where my daughter worked did not inform us about the…
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 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…
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…
A small passenger aircraft with 15 people on board crashed on Wednesday in a rural part of Colombia’s northeast, killing everyone on the flight, authorities said. The plane went down in Norte de Santander province. Satena, the state-owned airline operating the flight, said local officials in the village of Curasica alerted authorities after spotting the…
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: The aircraft carrying Maharashtra deputy chief minister Ajit Pawar crashed in Baramati on Wednesday morning, moments after being cleared to land, according to details provided by ministry of civil aviation citing the person manning air traffic controller (ATC) at the airfield.The crash occurred at around 8.44am, barely a minute after the aircraft was…
Digvijay Singh, Ajit Pawar and Mallikarjun Kharge (Images/Agencies) NEW DELHI: Opposition leaders on Wednesday demanded a thorough investigation into the plane crash that killed Maharashtra deputy chief minister Ajit Pawar and four others. The calls are being ranged from a DGCA-led probe to a Supreme Court-monitored inquiry.Ajit Pawar (66) was among five people killed when…
