A CCTV footage of the chartered aircraft at Baramati Airport was accessed by NDTV which shows the crash of Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar's chartered aircraft at Baramati Airport on Wednesday.
The video showed a Learjet 45 crashing at Baramati Airport with the plane descending low, impacting the runway, and exploding in flames with black smoke.
Pawar (66) and four other persons were killed in the incident. Pawar was travelling to Baramati from Mumbai to address public meetings as part of the campaign for the February 5 zilla parishad elections in the state.
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Sequence Of Event Leading To Accident:
Baramati is an uncontrolled airfield and traffic information is provided by the instructors/Pilot from the Flying training Organisations at Baramati. As per the statement of the person manning the ATC following are the sequence of events:
- On Jan 28, 2026 the aircraft VI-SSK first came in contact with Baramati at 08:18 a.m
- The aircraft's next call was at 30 NM inbound to Baramati and they were released by Pune approach. They were advised to descend in Visual Meteorological conditions at pilot's discretion.
- The crew enquired about the winds and visibility and they were informed that the winds were calm and visibility was around 3000 mts.
- Next the aircraft reported on the final approach of Runway 11 and the runway was not in sight to them. They initiated a go-around in the first approach.
- After Go Around, the aircraft was asked about its position and crew reported on final approach of runway 11.
- They were asked to report runway in sight. They replied “runway is currently not in sight, will call when runway is in sight". After a few seconds they reported that the runway is in sight.
- The aircraft was cleared to land on runway 11 at 0843IST, however, they did not give a readback of the landing clearance.
- Next, the ATC saw the flames around the threshold of runway 11 at 0844 IST. The emergency services then rushed to the crash site.
- The wreckage of the aircraft is located on the left side of the runway abeam threshold R/W 11.
- AAIB has taken over the investigation.
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