Ajit Pawar and four others killed in Learjet crash at Baramati

Five people, including Maharashtra deputy chief minister Ajit Pawar, were killed when a Learjet 45 crashed and exploded. The crash happened at Baramati Airport in Pune district, Maharashtra, India. The accident was recorded as the 2026 Baramati Learjet 45 crash. No survivors were reported in the account of the five deaths.

A Learjet 45 is a small business jet. Baramati Airport is the airfield named as the site, in the Pune district of the state of Maharashtra. The report said the aircraft crashed and exploded, so fire followed the impact. It did not state where the flight had taken off or what the destination was.

Ajit Pawar was identified as the deputy chief minister of Maharashtra, a state-level office in India's federal system. He was one of the five people killed, not a bystander on the ground. The other four people were not named in the summary. The report did not give their roles as pilots, crew, or passengers.

The explosion was part of the crash sequence as described, not a separate attack. Nothing in the account suggested hostile action. No weather report or mechanical finding was included. The established facts were the aircraft type, the airport, the explosion, and the five deaths including Pawar.

Air crashes that kill a sitting state leader become political news as well as aviation disasters because they remove an officeholder at once. This report stayed with the crash itself. It did not name a successor or describe a funeral. It also did not say whether the airport remained closed afterward.

The Learjet 45 crashed and exploded at Baramati Airport, killing five people. Ajit Pawar, deputy chief minister of Maharashtra, was among the dead. The site was in Pune district. The day's account of the accident ended on those facts.