After an internal investigation, Air Canada told CNN that the issue affected approximately 40 of its planes. In a joint statement with the French aerospace group Thales, which provides the in-flight entertainment systems, both companies issued an apology and explained the situation. A third company, which created the map, remains unidentified.

Forty Boeing 737 MAX planes were found to have moving maps that had erased Israel, labeling the state as “Palestinian Territories.”

Air Canada was forced to apologize after the map on some of the airline's narrowbody aircraft erased Israel. The live flight tracker, featured on Air Canada's seat-back entertainment system, reportedly excluded the country name from its map,

Air Canada is working to correct an in-flight map which replaced the State of Israel with “Palestinian territories.” The error was first noticed by a passenger on a recent flight from Vancouver to Montreal.

Air Canada has apologized for an in-flight display map that showed a Middle East without Israel. The airline deactivated the map display in its Boeing 737 fleet this week after a passenger complained that the map labeled the area as "Palestinian Territories,