Sometimes referred to as "the worst bug ever", this sloppy coincidence of blindly trusting legacy code, reckless type conversion and lacking of error handling mechanism, made the maiden flight of the Ariane-5 a disaster.
The lessons from that failure changed the way we engineer SW today.
Posts tagged as “bugs”
Severe bugs might be lethal.
One (or, in fact, two) horrifying example is the crash cases of two Boeing-737 due to bugs in the flying systems.