Officials of the domestic carrier Vayudoot said the Dornier aircraft exploded Saturday night about half an hour after takeoff from Poona airport and fell into the Unani dam on the Bhima River, about 90 miles away.
In fact, at one stage we had exported to Belgium." He spoke at a news conference at Poona near Bombay.
United News of India said a man, believed to be a Moslem, threw the waste on a statue of Lord Ganesha during morning rituals at a temple in the Laxmi Road area of Poona, 75 miles southeast of Bombay.
Hundreds of people are killed every year in Hindu-Moslem violence in India, often provoked by minor fights or deliberate acts such as the one in Poona.
Westerners seen groping at one another's bodies on Poona's streets may get a talking to by other followers.
A militant young Hindu tried to stab Rajneesh with a long knife in Poona in 1980, but the case was dropped when Rajneesh refused to testify in court.
Rajneesh also enraged people in Poona, where he settled after being expelled from the United States in 1985 as part of a plea bargain agreement on immigration fraud charges.