India•Times of India•Jan 29
Ajit Pawar death: From Boeing 737 examiner to beloved ‘Bunny’: Inside the life of Baramati plane crash victim Captain Sumit Kapur | Delhi News
For his family, Sumit Kapur was not defined by the jet crash that claimed his life, but by the warmth he carried into every room. To them, he was simply \"Bunny\" — a nickname that followed him from childhood into his final years. The 62-year-old pilot died in a charter aircraft crash in Maharashtra, leaving behind a family still struggling to absorb the suddenness of the loss. At the Punjabi Bagh crematorium in Delhi, more than 150 relatives, close friends and captains gathered, united by grief and memories of a man remembered as the heart of a close-knit west Delhi family. Kapur was a career pilot who had spent a staggering 20,000 hours in the air. After schooling at Springdales and Air Force Bal Bharati, he travelled to Canada for advanced flight training. He was an important figure at Sahara Airlines in the early 1990s, where colleagues remember him as the \"right hand\" of the chairman. Later, after working at Jet Airways, his technical precision earned him the title of examiner for Boeing 737.