A training aircraft from a private aviation academy left the runway during drills at Baramati airstrip in Maharashtra’s Pune district on Sunday afternoon, police reported. The incident took place around 12:30 p.m. with no injuries recorded.
This follows a January crash at the same site involving a charter plane that killed all five aboard, including a former deputy chief minister.
The Carver Aviation plane, registration VT-SEX, carried a pilot and cadet. It performed rejected takeoffs for circuit and emergency landing practice. The aircraft failed to stop fully and rolled roughly 20 feet into the grass past the runway end.
Officials noted the plane had lined up on Runway 29 then Runway 11 for the exercises before the excursion occurred to the right of the threshold. No harm came to those on board.
A separate trainer from another firm made an emergency landing nearby in May after a technical issue, also without casualties.
