Ariana Afghan Airlines Flight 202 (YA-BAG) was a scheduled international civilian passenger flight from Lebanon to Afghanistan on 21 November 1959.
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 on the scene.
The three initial survivors were taken to a hospital in Beirut shortly after the crash, and two of them later succumbed to their injuries.
An investigation was launched into the cause of the crash; the report found that a day earlier, after arriving from Frankfurt, West Germany, the flight was delayed for 20 hours due to technical difficulties.