"Papa, I'm Flying With Ajit Pawar To Baramati": Crew Member's Last Call To Father

The final phone conversation between flight attendant Pinky Mali and her father, Shivkumar Mali, has emerged following the Baramati plane crash that claimed the lives of Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar and four others. Pinky, a resident of Worli in Mumbai, told her father: "Pappa, I am flying to Baramati with Ajit Pawar. After dropping him off, I will head to Nanded. We'll talk tomorrow." Shivkumar responded that they would speak the next day after her work, but the call never came. "I told her, 'We'll talk tomorrow after your work.' But that tomorrow will never arrive," he said. "He mentioned that she had been accompanying Pawar on several recent trips. Overwhelmed, Shivkumar said: "I have lost my daughter. I do not know what exactly happened, as I have no technical knowledge about such incidents. I am completely shattered. I just want my daughter's body so that I can perform her last rites with dignity. That is all I wish for," he stated. The crash occurred on Wednesday morning near Baramati airport in Pune district, involving a Learjet 45 aircraft with registration VT-SSK, operated by Delhi-based VSR Ventures. The plane carried five people: Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar, his personal security officer Vidip Jadhav, flight attendant Pinky Mali, Pilot-in-Command Sumit Kapur, and Second-in-Command Shambhavi Pathak.