From Sanjay Gandhi to Ajit Pawar to Bipin Rawat: Indian politicians, prominent figures who lost their lives in air tragedies
Ajit Pawar, Maharashtra Deputy CM has died in a plane crash. His death in a plane crash have drawn comparisons with past Indian aviation tragedies involving leaders like Bipin Rawat, Sanjay Gandhi and Vijay Rupani. The article recalls major air crashes that killed prominent political figures.
Ajit Pawar dies in plane crash
Maharashtra Deputy CM Ajit Pawar has died after his plane crashed during landing at Baramati airport on Wednesday (Jan 28). Earlier, air tragedies have claimed lives of many Indian leaders and prominent figures.
Maharashtra Deputy CM Ajit Pawar
Maharashtra Deputy CM Ajit Pawar died on Wednesday (Jan 28) after his plane crashed during landing at Baramati airport. DGCA has confirmed that there are no survivors. There were five people on board, including three passengers, one pilot, and one crew member.
Former Gujarat chief minister Vijay Rupani
Former Gujarat chief minister Vijay Rupani was killed in Ahmedabad plane crash last year. Rupani was traveling on Air India Flight AI-171, a Boeing 787 Dreamliner bound for London's Gatwick Airport. The aircraft crashed shortly after takeoff from Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel International Airport
Congress leader Sanjay Gandhi
Congress leader and son of then prime minister Indira Gandhi, Sanjay Gandhi died in a plane crash on June 23, 1980. His plane lost control and crashed while he was attempting aerial stunts in a Delhi Flying Club aircraft near the Safdarjung Airport.
Congress leader Madhavrao Scindia
Senior Congress leader Madhavrao Scindia, himself a former civil aviation minister, died on September 30, 2001, in a plane crash en route a political rally in Kanpur. The 10-seater private aircraft crashed due to poor weather conditions near Manipuri in Uttar Pradesh.
Former Andhra Pradesh CM YS Reddy
On 2 September 2009, a helicopter carrying former Andhra Pradesh CM YS Reddy went missing in the Nallamala Forest area. It was later confirmed to have crashed with all five people including Reddy pronounced dead.
Bipin Rawat and Other prominent figures who died in plane crash
India's Chief of Defence Staff General Bipin Rawat died in a Mi-17 V5 helicopter crash on December 8, 2021. KS Sowmya, known as Soundarya, died in a plane crash on April 17, 2004. A Mi-17 V5 carrying General Rawat, his wife Madhulika, and 12 others crashed into the hills minutes before landing after taking off from the Sulur Air Force base in Coimbatore. While KS Sowmya was traveling from Bangalore to Karimnagar with her brother Amarnath for the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) campaign
Arunachal CM Dorjee Khandu
On May 5, 2011, five days after the helicopter that he was using went missing, Dorjee Khandu, the then Auranachal CM was found dead in Luguthang, near the China border
Haryana minister Om Prakash Jindal
Industrialist and Haryana minister Om Prakash Jindal died in a helicopter crash in Saharanpur, Uttar Pradesh. Another minister, Surender Singh, also died in the crash.
GMC Balayogi
The then Lok Sabha Speaker GMC Balayogi died in a helicopter crash in Andhra Pradesh’s Krishna district Balayogi had gone for a religious meeting in Bhimavaram in East Godavari district and was to return to Secunderabad by train, but at the last moment, decided to fly instead.
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