(BBC) 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.
"We asked them to disable the map for Fairbanks until they could correct it, thinking it would be better to have nothing show up than to take the chance that one more person would do this," Melissa Osborn, chief of operations at the airport, told the Alaska Dispatch newspaper.
She added that barricades had since been erected to block access to the final stretch of the taxiway and that they would not be removed until Apple had updated its directions.
However the BBC still experienced the issue when it tested the app, asking for directions to the site from a property to the east of the airport.The airport said it had been told the problem would be fixed by Wednesday.
By contrast the Google Maps app provided a different, longer route which takes drivers to the property's car park.
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