Apple's Maps App Prompts Drivers To Cross Runway at Alaskan Airport
Barricades have been erected
An Alaskan airport has closed an aircraft access route because of a flaw with Apple's Maps app.
Fairbanks International Airport told a local newspaper that in the past three weeks two motorists had driven along the taxiway and across one of its runways.
Apple's app directs users along the taxiway but does not specifically tell them to drive on to the runway.
A spokesman for Apple was unable to provide comment.
The airport said it had complained to the phone-maker through the local attorney general's office.
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