land. it may need more than that to take off, but to put it down on a hard surface on a gravel surface, oh, yes, it can be done. this aircraft can also a fly below radar detection. so the hijacker could have takenen over the aircraft, put it down on the deck, flown it underneath any kind of radar and put it down on a planned place on the face of the earth. that might be a remote location that was preplanned. now there are 634 runways within the range that the flight of the 370 could have landed. wow. that's a lot of targets. anybody covered this story about how many remote landing strips there are in thailand? we had quite a few of them in the vietnam war. they are probably still around unless somebody cut the grass. there are plenty of places a 500-foot run way could have been cut. it could have landed at a remote stretch or in a desert somewhere.