| Ariana Afghan Airlines Flight 202 | |
| Image Upright: | 1.2 |
| Date: | 21 November 1959[1] |
| Site: | Aramoun, Lebanon |
| Summary: | Controlled flight into terrain |
| Origin: | Beirut International Airport, Lebanon |
| Stopover0: | Mehrabad International Airport, Iran |
| Stopover1: | Kandahar International Airport, Afghanistan |
| Destination: | Kabul International Airport, Afghanistan |
| Fatalities: | 26 (24 initially, 2 in hospital) |
| Operator: | Ariana Afghan Airlines |
| Aircraft Type: | Douglas DC-4 |
| Tail Number: | YA-BAG |
| Passengers: | 22 |
| Crew: | 5 |
| Survivors: | 1 |
Ariana Afghan Airlines Flight 202 (YA-BAG) was a scheduled international civilian passenger flight from Lebanon to Afghanistan on 21 November 1959. It took off from Beirut and was destined for Kabul, with a stopover at Mehrabad in Iran and another stopover at Kandahar in Afghanistan. Two minutes after takeoff, 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. Two causes were proposed:[1]