India, Jan. 29 -- Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar and five other persons were killed on Wednesday morning when a chartered aircraft crashed at the Baramati airport. The aircraft operated by VSR Ventures Pvt Ltd, departed from Mumbai at 8.10am on Wednesday. Pawar was on his way to address four rallies in Pune district for the upcoming local body elections.

The others killed in the tragedy were Captain Sumit Kapoor, who had a flying experience of 15,000 hours, co-pilot Captain Shambhavi Pathak with 1,500 hours of flying, Personal Security Officer (PSO) Vidip Jadhav and flight attendant Pinky Mali. Meanwhile, civil aviation minister K Rammohan Naidu has said that the initial report suggests that the visibility was poor when the...