Overview
- Rohit Pawar and cousin Yugendra Pawar filed a fresh request at Baramati police seeking an FIR against VSR Ventures and DGCA officials a day after Mumbai police forwarded a similar complaint to the Pune CID.
- DGCA ordered the immediate grounding of four VSR-operated Learjet 40/45 aircraft (VT-VRA, VT-VRS, VT-VRV, VT-TRI) after a special audit cited non-compliances in airworthiness, air safety and flight operations, and sought a root-cause analysis.
- AAIB said it is conducting a detailed investigation and has sought special support to retrieve cockpit voice recorder data, with party leaders stating the black box was sent to the United States for decoding.
- Rohit Pawar alleges VSR’s flight-hour records are incomplete by roughly 3,000 hours and accuses the regulator and political interests of shielding the operator, while demanding a broader grounding of the company’s fleet and the aviation minister’s resignation.
- A 2023 crash-landing of another VSR Learjet in Mumbai remains under investigation, and AAIB’s preliminary findings on the Baramati crash are expected soon.