Saro: I sent a copy of your photo taken from the Twin Pin to a friend with whom we visited the Masafi strip a couple of years ago, and who knows the UAE and Oman very well. He says:
Yes, am sure that is the Masafi landing strip and makes sense if he was flying from Dibba to Sharjah because it looks like he was over the roadway and looking down on the strip to his left as he was flying west.
I fiddled with Google Earth and, though the proportions etc are not right, the features of the mountains and wadis are a match for those in the photograph though, because of the lighting, the scale and depth look different. But, for example, the mountain ridges beyond the landing strip match perfectly in my estimation.
Not much doubt in my mind that he photographed the strip we were looking at.
leesaranda: is it possible to post the photos you mention, or let me have copies?
Laurence
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