Ajit Pawar's plane went 'silent' 24 mins into flight, crashed mins after coming back online

Maharashtra Deputy CM Ajit Pawar's Bombardier Learjet 45 plane went 'silent' as it stopped broadcasting surveillance signals at 8:34 am, about 24 minutes after it took off from Mumbai, NDTV reported citing Flightradar24 data. It came back online minutes later as it took a loop near Baramati airport. Around 8:43 am, it went silent again, a minute before it crashed.