India, Feb. 2 -- NCP(SP) chief Sharad Pawar's grand-nephew Rohit Pawar visited the residence of Captain Shambhavi Pathak, who died along with Maharashtra's former deputy chief minister Ajit Pawar in a tragic plane crash in Baramati, and said he paid tribute to her, expressing his "deepest sympathies for the profound grief that has befallen their family".

Captain Shambhavi Pathak, one of the five casualties in the aviation accident that also left Ajit Pawar dead, was the First Officer on the Mumbai to Baramati flight that crashed in the morning hours of January 28.

She was piloting Bombardier Aerospace's Learjet 45, VT SSK, with Captain Sumit Kapoor.

Rohit Pawar, who is also distantly related to Ajit Pawar, visited Pathak's residence in...