The son of the Khorog Airport director who died after falling beneath Tajik president's helicopter has been appointed an acting director of the Khorog airport.
Shuhrat Maqsoudshoyev, the son of the Khorog airport director Dildor Maqsoudshoyev, has been appointed an acting director of the Khorog Airport, Jamila Husenova, a spokeswoman for the Dushanbe International Airport told Asia-Plus in an interview.
Recall, the director of Khorog Airport Dildor Maqsoudshoyev was killed on September 13 after being blown off his feet by the downwash from a helicopter carrying the country’s president.
A source in the Interior Ministry’s office in GBAO’s Darvoz district says Dildor Maqsoudshoyev, 60, who was stood at the end of a red carpet, was knocked to the ground by the downdraft from Rahmon's helicopter as the president was leaving the village of Yakhchisor on September 13.
Emomali Rahmon had just finished visiting the village in the Darvoz district was returning to Dushanbe in his helicopter when the incident occurred.
Dildor Maqsoudshoyev was among a group of local officials accompanying President Rahmon during his visit to villages in GBAO’s Darvoz district.
Meanwhile, Darvoz district chief Saidburhon Abdurahmonzoda later downplayed the role of Rahmon's helicopter in Maqsoudshoyev's death, telling Radio Liberty’s Tajik Service, locally known as Radio Ozodi, on September 14 that the 60-year-old airport director fell to the ground because he had a heart condition.
"I would bring to your attention that Maqsoudshoyev suffered from chronic heart disease and twice suffered a heart attack. He had previously had to have a damaged heart valve replaced. So his death has nothing to do with the visit by the head of state,” Saidburhon Abdurahmonzoda, told Radio Ozodi
Khorog Airport is an airport serving Khorog, the capital of the Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Region (GBAO) in Tajikistan. The airport resides at an elevation of 2,042 meters above mean sea level. It has one runway designated 16/34 with an asphalt surface measuring 1,840 by 49 meters.
