3-member team formed for investigation 'Ajit Pawar plane crash'

A three-member team has been constituted by the Ministry of Civil Aviation (MoCA) to probe the plane crash in Baramati that killed Maharashtra deputy chief minister Ajit Pawar and four others on January 28.

In a statement, the Ministry said the AAIB team, along with another three-member team from the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA), Mumbai Regional Office, reached the crash site on the day



of the accident itself.

The Director General of AAIB also visited the site of the Learjet 45 crash to oversee the investigation.

“The investigation is progressing expeditiously, and the black box of the ill-fated aircraft has been recovered,” the Ministry said in a post on X, stressing that “ensuring a thorough, transparent, and time-bound inquiry remains a top priority.”