I refer to the photograph featured on the front page of The Times (November 23) purporting to show “a rag and bone man... oblivious to the explosive situation” in the foreground and an Egypt Air aircraft in the background.

The clear inference which the reader is led to draw from the photograph and the caption is that the aircraft shown is the one which was hijacked and landed in Malta in the evening of November 23, 1985.

This is not correct. The aircraft shown in the photograph is a Boeing 707; the hijacked aircraft was a Boeing 737. The site shown is, in my view, Park No. 9 in the late 1970s. The foreground is the site which today is Malta International Airport. The hijacked aircraft was parked on Park No. 4 which did not, at the time, have the topology shown in the photograph.