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((More citations|date=April 2024))
((Short description|1998 passenger plane crash in Kabul, Afghanistan))
((Infobox aircraft occurrence
| name=1998 Ariana Afghan Airlines crash
| date          = 19 March 1998
| image         = Ariana Afghan Airlines Boeing 727 Durand-1.jpg
| caption       = YA-FAZ, the accident aircraft
| type          = [[Controlled flight into terrain]] of undetermined cause
| site          = Sharki Baratayi Mountain
| coordinates   = ((Coord|34|25|36|N|69|12|49|E|display=inline,title))
| fatalities    = 45
| aircraft_type = [[Boeing]] [[Boeing 727|727-228]]
| origin        = [[Sharjah International Airport]], [[Sharjah (city)|Sharjah]], United Arab Emirates
| stopover      = [[Kandahar Airport]], [[Kandahar]], [[Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (1996–2001)|Afghanistan]]
| destination   = [[Kabul International Airport]], Kabul, Afghanistan
| operator      = [[Ariana Afghan Airlines]]
| tail_number   = YA-FAZ
| occupants     = 45
| passengers    = 35
| crew          = 10
| survivors     = 0
))
On 19 March 1998, a [[Boeing 727]] passenger jet operated by [[Ariana Afghan Airlines]] crashed on approach into [[Kabul]], Afghanistan, killing all 45 people aboard. The flight may have been involved in [[smuggling]] and [[Islamic militant]] operations, as Ariana was at that time controlled by the [[Taliban]]-led [[Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (1996–2001)|Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan]] regime.

==Accident==
The flight departed the city of [[Sharjah (city)|Sharjah]] in the [[United Arab Emirates]] to [[Kabul]] on an unscheduled flight with a stop in [[Kandahar]], Afghanistan. While descending for [[Kabul International Airport]], the flight struck the [[Sharki Baratayi Mountain]] at an altitude of ((cvt|2600|m|ft)) at 13:00 local time. The crash killed all 10 crew members and 35 passengers. The weather at the time of the accident was poor with snow and rain as well as poor visibility.<ref name="aviation-safety">((Cite web |last=Ranter |first=Harro |title=Ariana crash information |url=http://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=19980319-0 |access-date=27 October 2018 |website=Aviation Safety Network |publisher=Flight Safety Foundation |archive-date=6 June 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110606103705/http://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=19980319-0 |url-status=live ))</ref><ref name="flightglobal">((Cite web |last= |date=1 April 1998 |title=Ariana Afghan crash |url=https://www.flightglobal.com/ariana-afghan-crash/20311.article |url-status=live |access-date=23 March 2021 |website=Flight Global |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200127225741/https://www.flightglobal.com/ariana-afghan-crash/20311.article |archive-date=27 January 2020))</ref><ref name="baaa-acro">((Cite web |title=Crash of a Boeing 727-228A near Kabul: 45 killed |url=https://www.baaa-acro.com/crash/crash-boeing-727-228a-near-kabul-45-killed |url-status=live |access-date=23 March 2021 |website=www.baaa-acro.com |publisher=Bureau of Aircraft Accidents Archives |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220309025256/https://www.baaa-acro.com/crash/crash-boeing-727-228a-near-kabul-45-killed |archive-date=9 March 2022))</ref>

==Aircraft==
The flight was operated by a [[Boeing 727-200|Boeing 727-228]], registered YA-FAZ. The aircraft first flew on 22 January 1981, meaning at the time of the accident, it was 17.2&nbsp;years old.<ref>((Cite web |url=http://www.airport-data.com/aircraft/YA-FAZ.html |title=Aircraft Data YA-FAZ, 1980 Boeing 727-228 C/N 22288 |website=www.airport-data.com |access-date=5 March 2020 |archive-date=1 September 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200901192422/https://www.airport-data.com/aircraft/YA-FAZ.html |url-status=live ))</ref>

==Aftermath==
During [[rescue operation]]s, Taliban regime members and Ariana officials reportedly carried 32 [[body bag]]s and another 15 bags with body parts recovered from the mountain. Rescue work was delayed by bad weather and from the aircraft's wreckage being on fire until 03:00 (local time) of the next day. The rescue attempt was made difficult by [[landmine]]s planted in the area during the [[Soviet-Afghan War]]. An Ariana official said on 20 March that the plane was carrying 32 passengers and 13 crew members.<ref name="emerald">((Cite journal |date=1 January 1999 |title=Aviation |url=https://www.emerald.com/insight/content/doi/10.1108/dpm.1999.07308aac.009/full/html |journal=Disaster Prevention and Management |volume=8 |issue=1 |doi=10.1108/dpm.1999.07308aac.009 |issn=0965-3562 |access-date=17 March 2020 |archive-date=17 March 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200317234813/https://www.emerald.com/insight/content/doi/10.1108/dpm.1999.07308aac.009/full/html |url-status=live ))</ref>

Even if the aircraft's [[flight recorder|black box]]es were reportedly searched for, there is no trace of either a report or an investigation to either determine the causes of the accident or the fate of the black boxes (possibly a consequence of the Taliban regime's international isolation). The director-general of Ariana Afghan Airlines, Hassan Jan, said that the crash was a consequence of bad weather.<ref name="emerald" />

The crash was one of several incidents that led to Ariana Airlines being [[List of air carriers banned in the European Union|prohibited from EU airspace]].<ref name="blacklisted">((Cite news |author=Cornwell |first=Alexander |url=https://gulfnews.com/business/aviation/blacklisted-airlines-in-eu-flying-in-uae-1.1275960 |title=Blacklisted airlines in EU flying in UAE |date=10 January 2014 |work=Gulf News |access-date=27 October 2018))</ref>

==Taliban and al-Qaeda operations==
According to a November 2001 ''[[Los Angeles Times]]'' story, this flight may have been one of several involved in a series of smuggling runs carrying arms, money, drugs and [[Islamist]] [[militant]]s between Sharjah, [[Pakistan]] and Afghanistan. Passengers on these flights reportedly included militants from both the [[al-Qaeda]] and Taliban movements, the latter of which ruled most of Afghanistan between 1996 and 2001, while also harboring [[Osama bin Laden]]. Being the regime that controlled most of Ariana's fleet and assets, as well as the airports in Kandahar and Kabul, the Taliban facilitated the flights, helping to provide fake crew and employee IDs to the militants. According to the ''LA Times'' report, the pilots of this particular flight may have been Taliban themselves. The story reports on an August 1996 incident, in which [[Ahmad Shah Massoud]]'s militia stopped an Ariana 727 that was about to depart from [[Jalalabad Airport]] full of [[opium]] hidden in a fake timber cargo. [[US intelligence]] officials were reportedly aware of these flights and the use that the Taliban regime was giving to Ariana Afghan.<ref name="latimes">((Cite news |last=Braun |first=Stephen |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2001-nov-18-mn-5593-story.html |title=Long Before Sept. 11, Bin Laden Aircraft Flew Under the Radar |date=18 November 2001 |work=Los Angeles Times |access-date=5 March 2020 |last2=Pasternak |first2=Judy))</ref>

==References==
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