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,[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.

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
DateNovember 21, 1959[1]
SummaryCFIT
Sitenear Beirut, Lebanon[1]
Aircraft
Aircraft typeDouglas DC-4[1]
OperatorAriana Afghan Airlines[1]
RegistrationYA-BAG[1]
Flight originBeirut International Airport, Lebanon
1st stopoverMehrabad Airport, Iran
2nd stopoverKandahar International Airport, Afghanistan
DestinationKabul International Airport, Afghanistan
Passengers22
Crew5
Fatalities26[1]
Injuries1[1]
Survivors1 (initially 3)

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.

References

  1. "ASN Aircraft accident Douglas DC-4 YA-BAG Beirut". Aviation Safety Network. Flight Safety Foundation. Archived from the original on 2010-01-25. Retrieved 2010-01-25.


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