Statuts:
Date:	21 NOV 1959
Type/Sous-type:	Douglas DC-4
Compagnie:	Ariana Afghan Airlines
Immatriculation:	YA-BAG
Numéro de série:	18367
Année de Fabrication:	1944
Equipage:	victimes: 5 / à bord: 5
Passagers:	victimes: 19 / à bord: 22
Total:	victimes: 24 / à bord: 27
Dégats de l'appareil:	Perte Totale
Conséquences:	Written off (damaged beyond repair)
Lieu de l'accident:	ca 30 km NE of Beirut International Airport (BEY) (Liban)
Phase de vol:	En montée initiale (ICL)
Nature:	Transport de Passagers Intern.
Aéroport de départ:	Beirut International Airport (BEY/OLBA), Liban
Aéroport de destination:	Tehran-Mehrabad Airport (THR/OIII), Iran
Numéro de vol:	202

Détails:
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."

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