Status:
Date:	21 NOV 1959
Type:	Douglas DC-4
Operator:	Ariana Afghan Airlines
Registration:	YA-BAG
C/n / msn:	18367
First flight:	1944
Crew:	Fatalities: 5 / Occupants: 5
Passengers:	Fatalities: 19 / Occupants: 22
Total:	Fatalities: 24 / Occupants: 27
Airplane damage:	Written off
Airplane fate:	Written off (damaged beyond repair)
Location:	ca 30 km NE of Beirut International Airport (BEY) (Lebanon)
Phase:	Initial climb (ICL)
Nature:	International Scheduled Passenger
Departure airport:	Beirut International Airport (BEY/OLBA), Lebanon
Destination airport:	Tehran-Mehrabad Airport (THR/OIII), Iran
Flightnumber:	202

Narrative:
Ariana Afghan flight 202 arrived at Beirut at 23:30 GMT on November 20 after a flight from Frankfurt. Technical difficulties caused a delay of about 20 hours. The next day the flight took off from runway 18 for a flight to Tehran, Kandahar and Kabul. Some 2 minutes following takeoff the plane crashed in the hills of Aramoun.

PROBABLE CAUSE: "The accident was attributed to a combination of: 1) a navigational error - in that the pilot did not right turn out as early as he should have, either because he forgot or because he was distracted by some unusual occurrence; and 2) a fire indication (or possibly a fire) in no.1 engine which induced the pilot to start fire emergency action with a resulting reduction in the rate of turn and the rate of climb."

Events:

Sources:
» ICAO Accident Digest, Circular 62-AN/57 (213-216)