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) |
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.
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.
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