Ajit Pawar plane crash live updates: Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar and four others were killed after an aircraft carrying them crashed in Pune district on Wednesday (January 28, 2026) morning, officials said.
A team of the Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau (AAIB), probing the plane crash, has left from Delhi to inspect the accident site in Baramati. The incident occurred when the Learjet 46 plane carrying Mr. Pawar (66) and others crash landed at Baramati Airfield.
According to Flight Radar, the flight took off from Mumbai at 8:10 a.m. and it disappeared from radar around 8:45 am. There were five people on board when the aircraft crashed at 8:50 a.m., a police official said.
Mr. Pawar was on his way from Mumbai to Baramati to address public meetings as part of the campaign trail for the February 5 zilla parishad elections in the State.
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Ajit Anantrao Pawar was a senior Indian politician who served as Maharashtra’s 8th Deputy Chief Minister of Maharashtra alongside Eknath Shinde in the Devendra Fadnavis-led government from December 2024 until his death in January 2026. He was the longest-serving Deputy Chief Minister of the state in non-consecutive terms.
Over the course of his political career, Pawar held the deputy chief minister’s post six times under different administrations, including those led by Prithviraj Chavan, Devendra Fadnavis, Uddhav Thackeray, and Eknath Shinde.
In addition to his executive roles, Pawar served as the Leader of the Opposition in the Maharashtra Legislative Assembly between 2022 and 2023. Earlier in his career, he represented the Baramati Lok Sabha constituency in 1991, marking the beginning of his long and influential presence in Maharashtra’s political landscape. He died on Wednesday morning after his Learjet 45 crashed while trying to land at Baramati airport.
The aircraft carrying Pawar, 66, left Mumbai at 8.10 am and crashed at 8.46 am.
All five on board were killed in the crash, aviation regulator DGCA said.
Pawar leaves behind his wife Sunetra Pawar, a Rajya Sabha MP, and two sons, Parth and Jay.
It is perhaps fitting the end came in Baramati, for this now-prosperous sugarcane-producing belt was the proving ground that nurtured a political journey of over three decades.
Baramati was where a young Ajit Pawar, still in his uncle’s far-reaching shadow, learned the game – that of politics and power – and was moulded into the hard-nosed politician who would later play a starring role in re-shaping, perhaps for all time, Maharashtra’s political landscape.
And it was here, many years later, that Pawar’s journey – and a political life punctuated by drama, family feuds and reconciliations, in the truest Bollywood-style – came to an end.
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