Pilot Shambhawi Pathak Dies in Ajit Pawar's Plane Crash

• Captain Shambhawi Pathak, First Officer for VSR Ventures, was piloting Ajit Pawar's Learjet 45.
• The aircraft, en route from Mumbai to Baramati, crashed 20 km from Baramati Airport, killing all four on board.
• Pathak, along with Ajit Pawar, his PSO Vidip Yadav, co-pilot Sumit Kapoor, and a flight attendant, perished.
• Shambhawi Pathak was a trained commercial pilot from New Zealand International Commercial Pilot Academy and held a Frozen ATPL from DGCA.
• Ajit Pawar was traveling to Baramati for four important public meetings ahead of district council elections in Pune.

Why It Matters: Pilot Shambhawi Pathak, along with Ajit Pawar and others, died in a plane crash near Baramati.