Ariana Afghan Airlines Flight 202
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Date21 November 1959[1]
AircrafttypeDouglas DC-4[1]
 Aircraft, similar to the one involved in this incident, photographed while under operation by KLM Royal Dutch Airlines in 1954. | |
| Occurrence | |
|---|---|
| Date | 21 November 1959[1] |
| Summary | Controlled flight into terrain |
| Site | |
| 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 |
| Occupants | 27 |
| Passengers | 22 |
| Crew | 5 |
| Fatalities | 24[1] |
| Injuries | 3 |
| Survivors | 3[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 at 1:30AM Local Time, 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.
