Ariana Afghan Airlines Flight 202, a Douglas DC-4, registration YA-BAG, was an international scheduled flight from Lebanon, bound for Afghanistan with scheduled stops at Mehrabad Airport, Iran and Kandahar International Airport, Afghanistan. On November 21, 1959, two minutes after takeoff,[1] the aircraft crashed into the side of a hill in Aramoun near Beirut. A small cabin fire erupted shortly after the crash, killing 24 of the 27 passengers on board. The 3 surviving passengers were taken to a hospital in Beirut. Two of them later died at the hospital.

Ariana Afghan Airlines Flight 202

Douglas DC-4 operated by KLM Royal Dutch Airlines in 1954, similar to the one involved in the Ariana Afghan Airlines Flight 202 disaster.
Occurrence
Date	November 21, 1959[1]
Summary	CFIT
Site	near Beirut, Lebanon[1]
Aircraft
Aircraft type	Douglas DC-4[1]
Operator	Ariana Afghan Airlines[1]
Registration	YA-BAG[1]
Flight origin	Beirut International Airport, Lebanon
1st stopover	Mehrabad Airport, Iran
2nd stopover	Kandahar International Airport, Afghanistan
Destination	Kabul International Airport, Afghanistan
Passengers	22
Crew	5
Fatalities	26[1]
Injuries	1[1]
Survivors	1 (initially 3)

Cause

The investigation found that the day before, after a flight from Frankfurt, the flight was delayed for 20 hours due to technical difficulties. Two causes were proposed:[1]

• A navigational error in that the pilot did not right execute a right turn as early as he should have, either because he forgot or was distracted by some unusual occurrence.
• A fire in the No. 1 engine, which induced the pilot to start emergency actions with a resulting reduction in the rate of turn and climb.

References

External links

• AirDisaster.com Accident Database^[Usurped!]

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