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Apple Maps flaw results in drivers crossing airport runway

Last updated by XC Triker

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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.

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Apple's app had directed users along the taxiway but did not specifically tell them to drive onto the runway.

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