| Date: | Saturday 21 November 1959 |
| Time: | |
| Type: |  Douglas DC-4 |
| Owner/operator: | Ariana Afghan Airlines |
| Registration: | YA-BAG |
| MSN: | 18367 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1944 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 24 / Occupants: 27 |
| Other fatalities: | 0 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | ca 30 km NE of Beirut International Airport (BEY) -
 Lebanon
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| Phase: | Initial climb |
| Nature: | Passenger - Scheduled |
| Departure airport: | Beirut International Airport (BEY/OLBA) |
| Tehran-Mehrabad Airport (THR/OIII) | |
| Confidence Rating: |  Accident investigation report completed and information captured |
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."
Accident investigation:
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Sources:
ICAO Accident Digest, Circular 62-AN/57 (213-216)
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