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Ariana Afghan Airlines Flight 202 crash

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The location here is Aramoun near where the airline crashed but the precise location needs to be found.

Ariana Afghan Airlines Flight 202


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 in Mehrabad Airport, Iran, and Kandahar International Airport, Afghanistan. On November 21, 1959, two minutes after takeoff on runway 18, the aircraft crashed into the side of a hill at hills of 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 hospital in Beirut.

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