Gideon Sitterman the Israeli Transport Ministry Director-General is demanding an explanation from British BMI airline over reports that the airline’s inflight map had wiped Israel off the map.

Angry Israeli passengers said that a flight heading towards Israel had shown them going to Mecca. They also claimed the inflight map did not show the state of Israel. Sitterman told Israel Army Radio that either the airline rectifies the maps or BMI would disappear from the skies over Israel:

“Irate Israeli passengers have complained to British BMI airline that the Jewish state was wiped off the inflight map which showed flights bound for Israel were instead heading to Mecca.

But the airline denied any anti-Israel agenda and insisted there was a simple explanation: the planes were recently bought from a bankrupt charter company that flew mainly to Muslim countries.

“For this reason the inflight entertainment system in the two planes was made to adapt to the passengers flying to and from those destinations and therefore the map showed mainly places holy to Islam,” BMI said in a statement….

…furious passengers took up the issue with the authorities, an Israeli official made it clear that either the Jewish state appears on the maps or BMI disappears from its skies.

“Doing business with Israel has its advantages and disadvantages, but we will not agree to a situation where they hide the existence of Israel but want to do business with Israel,” transport ministry director-general Gideon Sitterman told army radio.” [Source: AFP]

As far as I know there is no airport in Makkah, the closet one is in the seaport of Jeddah. So how could the flight land in Makkah ?

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