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Occurrence | |
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Date | 21 November 1959 |
Summary | Controlled flight into terrain |
Site | Aramoun, Lebanon |
Aircraft | |
Aircraft type | Douglas DC-4 |
Operator | Ariana Afghan Airlines |
Registration | YA-BAG |
Flight origin | Beirut International Airport, Lebanon |
1st stopover | Mehrabad International Airport, Iran |
2nd stopover | Kandahar International Airport, Afghanistan |
Destination | Kabul International Airport, Afghanistan |
Passengers | 22 |
Crew | 5 |
Fatalities | 26 (24 initially, 2 in hospital) |
Survivors | 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, 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.
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:
Aviation accidents and incidents in 1959 (1959) | |
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Jan 8 Southeast Airlines Flight 308Jan 11 Lufthansa Flight 502Jan 16 Austral Líneas Aéreas Flight 205Feb 3 American Airlines Flight 320Feb 3 Clear Lake crash ("The Day the Music Died")Feb 3 Pan Am Flight 115Feb 17 Turkish Airlines Gatwick crashApr 23 Air Charter Turkey crashMay 12 Capital Airlines Flight 75Jun 22 Pan Am Clipper PanamaJun 26 TWA Flight 891Jun 30 Okinawa F-100 crashAug 15 American Airlines Flight 514Aug 19 Transair Douglas Dakota accidentSep 24 TAI Flight 307Sep 29 Braniff Flight 542Oct 23 Aeroflot Flight 200Oct 30 Piedmont Airlines Flight 349Nov 16 National Airlines Flight 967Nov 16 Aeroflot Flight 315Nov 21 Ariana Afghan Airlines Flight 202Dec 1 Allegheny Airlines Flight 371Dec 4 San Diego F3H crashDec 13 Aeroflot Flight 120 | |
1958 ◄ ► 1960 |
Aviation accidents and incidents in Lebanon | |
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