Ariana Afghan Airlines Flight 202


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, 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.

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: