Today is the birthday of martyr pilot Lieutenant Colonel Fakhraddin Asgarov, who had special services in the development of the Azerbaijani Air Force and raised our tricolor flag to the sky of the Motherland for the first time.
Modern.az reports that Fakhraddin Ilham oglu Asgarov was born on June 29, 1974, in Gazakh district into an intellectual family. He received his education in the Russian section of secondary school No. 2 named after Samad Vurgun in Gazakh district. He graduated from school with high marks. In 1992, he entered the Azerbaijan Higher Military School named after Heydar Aliyev and in the same year, he was selected through a competition and sent to the Higher Military Aviation Academy of the Republic of Turkey to continue his military education. He completed his higher education with high indicators in 1996.
From 1996 to 2008, he served in the Azerbaijani Army with high professionalism and patriotism, rising from the position of chief pilot to chief of staff and commander of a military unit. During his service as a military pilot, he quickly mastered piloting L-39, SU-17, SU-25, and MIG-229 type combat aircraft, and actively participated as an instructor-pilot in the training of young pilots in Azerbaijan.
After Azerbaijan gained independence, when the air border was violated for the first time (by Iran in 2001), military pilot Fakhraddin Asgarov was sent to confront the violating forces. In 2004, 2006, and 2007, he showed high activity in the organization and execution of demonstrations of our military aircraft over the capital and the Caspian Sea, and was one of our first pilots to draw the image of our state flag in the sky of the Motherland.
In 2005, at the age of 31, he was promoted to the military rank of lieutenant colonel. During his service, on June 24, 2003, he was awarded the “For Military Services” medal by the decree of the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan Heydar Aliyev, on June 25, 2006, the III degree “For Distinction in Military Service” medal and the “10th Anniversary of the Armed Forces of the Republic of Azerbaijan (1991-2001)” jubilee medal by the order of the Minister of Defense on behalf of the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan.
During his years of service, he was on foreign assignments in Turkey, Hungary, the USA, Ukraine, and the UAE at various times.
Lieutenant Colonel Fakhraddin Asgarov crashed on January 29, 2008, while conducting a training flight with a MiG-29 combat aircraft belonging to the Azerbaijani Air Force.
Although the p of the other pilot on the plane, Captain Afgan Aslanov, was found a few days after the incident, Fakhraddin Asgarov's p has not been found to this day.
On January 29, 2008, in accordance with the combat readiness plan, while performing an air combat flight as an instructor with Captain Afgan Aslanov on a MIG-29 military aircraft, he was martyred as a result of the plane crashing in the Shuraabad direction of the Caspian Sea. During the searches, the p of the other pilot was found and buried in the II Alley of Honor. However, Fakhraddin Asgarov's p was not found.
Fakhraddin Asgarov, who dedicated his life to the development of the Azerbaijani Air Force, truly gave his life for the Motherland at the age of 33 without any self-interest.
The pilots trained and taught to fly by Fakhraddin Asgarov showed great heroism in the Patriotic War and played an important role in the liberation of our occupied territories. Some of the servicemen he trained have now been promoted to the rank of general in the Azerbaijani Army and continue their service to the Motherland.
Fakhraddin's two children, who remained as a legacy, have grown up as highly educated young people today.
