The Learjet aircraft crashed in Maharashtra's Baramati on Wednesday morning, killing Ajit Pawar and four others on board.

The Baramati airport operated without basic navigational aids, a dedicated fire tender or a professional air traffic control service.

India's civil aviation directorate has disclosed that a Learjet 45 which crashed on approach to the uncontrolled Baramati airfield had already conducted a go-around owing to a lack of visual runway contact.

Shambhavi Pathak was one of the pilots onboard the ill-fated Learjet 45 flight carrying Ajit Pawar that crashed today, on 28 January.

Mumbai: The charter company VSR Ventures Pvt Ltd, whose Bombardier Learjet crashed at Baramati on Wednesday killing Maharashtra’s deputy chief minister Ajit Pawar (66) and four others, has a controversial past.

Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar and four others tragically died in a plane crash in Pune district on Wednesday morning. The aircraft, a Learjet 45, crashed near Baramati due to reportedly poor visibility during landing,