Will reveal more details on Baramati crash: Rohit Pawar

Mumbai: With the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) grounding four aircraft of the VSR Ventures Pvt Ltd, NCP (SP) MLA Rohit Pawar has said that this is just tip of the iceberg and he will come out with more details on Wednesday.

VSR is the owner of the Learjet that crashed in Baramati claiming the life of Deputy Chief Minister and NCP president Ajit Pawar and four others.

“We have been repeatedly raising the issue that VSR company is not following any compliances and is operating aircraft in an extremely arbitrary and unsafe manner. Today, the DGCA has grounded four of VSR’s aircraft on the very same issue of non-compliance,” the two-time legislator from Karjat-Kamkhed and nephew of Ajit Pawar said.

“Although our struggle is beginning to see success, this is only the tip of the iceberg. There is still much more yet to come to light. I will speak in detail on this matter on Wednesday,” he said.

Meanwhile, NCP MLC Amol Mitkari said that the matter has to be investigated thoroughly. “Whether Captain Sumit Kapur, the pilot-in-command, was a suicide bomber or not needs to be probed. He has a history and had been de-rostered earlier,” he said.