Are There Any Landing Strips Still Around In Viet Nam - Left Over From The War?......

[global1]

Just asking. It seems that the search is only being conducted over water. Why haven't they looked over the land. Looking at the maps - it looks like the plane would have been going directly over Viet Nam. I'm just wondering if any American constructed landing strips still exist in the jungles of Nam. If the plane was hijacked - could it have landed in Nam?

[Agschmid]

1. They would be mostly overgrown by now.

It's a pretty impressive how quickly the land can be reclaimed by the earth.

[pinboy3niner]

4. And with no maintenance over the decades, runways would be unusable. nt

[NuclearDem]

2. From what I understand, a lot of the air raids over Vietnam during the war

were either carried out from aircraft carriers or Guam.

[upaloopa]

3. Those strips were for C-130 Caribou and C123 all short landing prop planes.

No 777 could land on them. I spend quite a few hours waiting around one for a plane going our way to pick us up.

[Warpy]

5. Airstrips need to be about a mile long to land a 777

and most airstrips in the bush were far shorter. 40 years after the war, the jungle has reclaimed most of them unless they've been turned into cropland. Vietnam is also densely populated enough that word of a crash (which is what landing on a short airstrip would be) would have reached authorities by now.