2 weeks Ago By Mihir Tanksale
Pune: Two students of a private flight training academy in Baramati died, while two others were injured after their SUV hit a tree before overturning along Baramati-Bhigwan road around 3.15am on Monday. The accident occurred on a sharp turn near Jainakwadi, about 110km from Pune, when the four students were driving towards Bhigwan from Baramati.
Pune Rural police identified the deceased as Takshu Sharma (21) of New Delhi and Aditya Kanase (21) of Mumbai, and the injured as Krishna Ishu Singh (21) from Bihar and Cheshta Bishnoi (21) from Rajasthan. Singh and Bishnoi were undergoing treatment in a nearby private hospital. "Doctors said Bishnoi's condition is critical and she is unconscious," deputy superintendent of police (Baramati division) Sudarshan Rathod told TOI.
"Singh was driving the vehicle when the accident occurred. We are awaiting blood sample test reports to establish if it was a case of drunk driving. All the four students were undergoing flight training at the institute in Baramati for the past one year.
They were staying at private accommodations in Baramati," he said. "Investigations revealed that they had a late-night dinner in a room of one of their friends. After the dinner, they left in Singh's SUV for a drive," Rathod said.
Assistant Inspector V J Mahangade of Bhigwan police told TOI that after travelling about 8km towards Bhigwan, Singh lost control on a sharp turn and the vehicle went off the road. "The SUV, which was at high speed, first crashed into a tree and overturned on a water pipeline of a lift irrigation system," Mahangade said. A passerby, who noticed the overturned SUV and its blinkers, immediately alerted the police, the officer said.
A team from Bhigwan police and Baramati Rural police reached the spot. "Two of the four people in the car were found dead. Two others were severely injured.
They were immediately sent to a hospital," Mahangade said. The victims' bodies were sent for post-mortem. "A case of accidental death has been registered with the Baramati taluka police," Mahangade said.
When contacted, an official from the flight training academy's Delhi office said they had no information about the accident. Officials based in Baramati did not respond to repeated calls. The academy claims to be the largest flight training facility in India and has a total of 49 training aircraft, of which 45 are single-engine aircraft.
The institute, headquartered in Delhi, has bases in Baramati, Seoni, Lilabari, Belagavi, Gulbarga, and Colombo in Sri Lanka, as per information posted on its website. The academy, according to sources, has around 450 students. In the Baramati base, the institute has around 18 aircraft.
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