{"id":41048,"date":"2026-01-28T11:02:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-28T05:17:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/?p=41048"},"modified":"2026-01-28T11:02:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T05:17:07","slug":"ajit-pawar-maharashtra-deputy-cm-dies-in-plane-crash-in-baramati","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/ajit-pawar-maharashtra-deputy-cm-dies-in-plane-crash-in-baramati\/","title":{"rendered":"Ajit Pawar, Maharashtra Deputy CM, dies in plane crash in Baramati"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p><strong>Mumbai :<\/strong> Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister and NCP chief Ajit Pawar died after his aircraft crashed during an emergency landing attempt at Baramati airport on Wednesday morning.<\/p>\n<p>The two pilots and Ajit&#8217;s two security personnel (1 PSO and 1 attendant) also died in the crash, which happened as the chartered aircraft was attempting an emergency landing at Baramati airport.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Five people on board the Mumbai to Baramati charter plane, which crash-landed, have died,&#8221; the DGCA said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>Ajit Pawar was heading to Baramati to address four public meetings ahead of the Zilla Parishad elections when the aircraft, a Bombardier Learjet 45, which was chartered from Mumbai, crashed. The aircraft belongs to Delhi-based charter company VSR.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mumbai : Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister and NCP chief Ajit Pawar died after his aircraft crashed during an emergency landing attempt at Baramati airport on Wednesday morning. The two pilots and Ajit&#8217;s two security personnel (1 PSO and 1 attendant) also died in the crash, which happened as the chartered aircraft was attempting an emergency [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":41049,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41048"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41048"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41048\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41050,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41048\/revisions\/41050"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41049"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}