Nibbled to death by software bugs

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The form you have selected does not exist. As it started disintegrating, it self-destructed a security measure. In in Scotland, a Chinook helicopter crashed and killed all 29 passengers.

While initially the pilot was blamed for the crash, that decision was later overturned since there was evidence that a systems error had been the actual cause. Another example of a software-induced flight crash happened in , when an error in the flight-control software for the Swedish JAS 39 Gripen fighter aircraft was behind a widely publicized crash in Sweden.

Here is a video of the JAS 39 Gripen incident:. Due to this bug, the orbiter crashed almost immediately when it arrived at Mars in The planted bug eventually caused a huge Siberian gas pipeline explosion in We have mentioned just 10 examples in this article, but the truth is that these are just the tip of a very large iceberg. Every year, software errors cause massive amounts of problems all over the world.

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