A Flight to Chu Lai and the Bus Ride from Hell!!! by Charlie * Jun. 7th, 2007 at 2:21 PM Saigon to ‘Dodge City’ (Quang Ngai), Vietnam Mother of Mary! I finally made it to what can only be described as the Wild, Wild, West! But yes, you are right I am in the ‘east’, or at least on the east coast of Vietnam, and what a place this place is. Getting here was rather tame if you overlook the Vietnam Air Services (VASCO) ATR-72’s bald tires, high speed taxis and fast landing approaches, with what was most probably a student pilot onboard learning to fly the damn thing. All that aside, we did manage to land safely at an airport with a name that isn’t even on a map, Chu Lai. It is so remote
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