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This plane crash takes us to the Middle Eastern country of Lebanon, which is located next to the following countries: Israel and Syria.
WARNINGS OF A PLANE CRASH
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Ariana Afghan Airlines Flight 202, registered as Yankee Alpha- Bravo Alpha Golf (YA-BAG), a Douglas DC-4 aircraft that was on an international scheduled passenger flight from Beirut International Airport (IATA: BEY, ICAO: OLBA), Beirut, Lebanon that was bound for Kabul International Airport (IATA: KBL, ICAO: OAKB), Kabul, Afghanistan with scheduled stopovers at Mehrabad International Airport (IATA: THR, ICAO: OIII), Mehrabad, Iran and another stopover at Kandahar International Airport (IATA: KDH, ICAO: OAKN), Kandahar, Afghanistan, on the 21st of November 1959, two minutes after takeoff from Beirut the aircraft crashed into the side of a hill in Aramoun near Beirut, Lebanon, a small cabin fire erupted shortly after the crash, the crash killed 24 out of the 27 people on board, the 3 surviving passengers were taken to a hospital in Beirut, Lebanon, two of the survivors later died at the hospital.
The investigation found that the day before, after the flight arrived from Frankfurt, Germany, the flight was delayed for 20 hours due to technical difficulties, the investigators came up with two possible causes of the crash; one a navigational error that the pilots didn't execute a right turn as early as they should have, either they forgot or were distracted by some occurrence and the second one was that a fire in the Number one engine (The left most engine), which was induced the pilots to start emergency actions with a resulting reduction in the rate of turn and climb.
The summary of the crash was Controlled Flight into Terrain.
