Three reasons why El Al's excuse for not showing location information to its passengers don't make sense: (1) whoever is on the plane to relay the information about the plane's exact location to the ground would be doing so knowing that the person on the other end of the line will shortly try to shoot them down (and yes, I know about suicide bombers, but being simply a passive target is something different IMHO), (2) if it takes the airborne terrorist 2 minutes to relay the information to the ground, the plane will be 16 miles away from its former location, and (3) if the airplane discloses latitude and longitude to the nearest minute, there's still a margin of error of about a mile. If the airline fudges the location by (say) 05' one way or another, then there's an error of 5 miles or so.