In fact, Kapoor wasn’t even supposed to fly the aircraft that day. He was filling in for a colleague who had got caught up in traffic, friends said. Kapoor was told that he had to fly Pawar from Mumbai to his hometown Baramati for election rallies. Around 8 am, Kapoor took off in the aircraft operated by Delhi-based company VSR Ventures with Pawar and three others on board. All five on board, including Pawar, Kapoor, his co-pilot, Captain Shambhavi Pathak, flight attendant Pinky Mali, and the politician’s security guard, Vidip Jadhav, died in the crash.