Tajik Air (7J, Dushanbe) has leased its sole MA-60, EY-201, to Afghanistan's East Horizon Airlines (Kabul) after Firouz Hamroev, the airline's director general, said the type would not be flown in Tajikistan for the foreseeable future. “We have decided that the aircraft will work in Afghanistan and a one-year contract has been concluded with Afghanistan’s East Horizon Airlines,” Ikrom Mavlonov, Tajik Air Deputy Director general for economic issues, told Central Asian Aero News. Last year, EY-201 was involved in an incident while on approach into Dushanbe in which the aircraft suddenly lost height and impacted the ground. The Tajik government moved to ground the aircraft in the wake of an investigation. The turboprop was one of two acquired from Xian Aircraft Company (Xi'an Yanliang) on lease and was to have replaced the An-24 on domestic routes.