PPRuNe Forums - View Single Post - Which Aerodrome Mk III
View Single Post
Old 29th Apr 2013, 01:53
  #3793 (permalink)  
India Four Two
 
Join Date: Jun 2002
Location: Manchester MAN
Posts: 6,644
Received 74 Likes on 46 Posts
Saigon Tan Son Nhut it is. (AKA India 42's backyard.)
Oh, the horror, the horror! I missed it.

Looking carefully, I can just see the control tower in LFH's original post, which soldiered on until this year:


It's just been replaced by a non-airside brand new one, complete with ASR, very close to the location of the photographer in the shot above.

Concerning the spelling of the name, Tân Sơn Nhứt is the Southern spelling and was therefore used prior to 1975, when it was Saigon's International Airport. Now it is Tân Sơn Nhất, which of course is the Northern spelling and it is the Ho Chi Minh City International Airport.

Just to add to the confusion, Tân Sơn Nhứt is pronounced something like Tan Son Nyit, whereas Tân Sơn Nhất is like Tan Son Nyut (although neither of my attempts at phonetics do justice to the subtleties of Vietnamese pronunciation).

Finally, I'm amused by the fact that the IATA code for Tân Sơn Nhất is still SGN.

PS LFH, bạn có nói tiếng Việt?

Last edited by India Four Two; 29th Apr 2013 at 03:46.
India Four Two is offline