Ariana Afghan Airlines Flight 202

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Ariana Afghan Airlines Flight 202
Douglas DC-4 KLM PH-DBT 08.54.jpg
Aircraft, similar to the one involved in this incident, photographed while under operation by KLM Royal Dutch Airlines in 1954.
Occurrence
Date21 November 1959 [1]
Summary Controlled flight into terrain
Site Aramoun, 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 International Airport, Iran
2nd stopover Kandahar International Airport, Afghanistan
Destination Kabul International Airport, Afghanistan
Passengers22
Crew5
Fatalities26 (24 initially, 2 in hospital) [1]
Survivors1 [1]

Ariana Afghan Airlines Flight 202 (YA-BAG) was a scheduled international civilian passenger flight from Lebanon to Afghanistan on 21 November 1959. It took off from Beirut and was destined for Kabul, with a stopover at Mehrabad in Iran and another stopover at Kandahar in Afghanistan. Two minutes after takeoff, [1] the aircraft, a Douglas DC-4, crashed into the side of a hill in Aramoun. The impact caused a fire to break out in the cabin, killing 24 of the flight's 27 total occupants on the scene. The three initial survivors were taken to a hospital in Beirut shortly after the crash, and two of them later succumbed to their injuries.

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Investigation

An investigation was launched into the cause of the crash; the report found that a day earlier, after arriving from Frankfurt, West Germany, the flight was delayed for 20 hours due to technical difficulties. Two causes were proposed: [1]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 "ASN Aircraft accident Douglas DC-4 YA-BAG Beirut". Aviation Safety Network. Flight Safety Foundation. Archived from the original on 2011-06-06. Retrieved 2010-01-25.

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