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Date |
Deaths |
Detail |
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2003 |
3 |
Software failure contributes to power outage across the Northeastern U.S. and Canada. |
|
2001 |
5 |
Panamanian cancer patients die following overdoses of radiation, amounts of which were determined by faulty use of software. |
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2000 |
4 |
Crash of a Marine Corps Osprey tilt-rotor aircraft partially blamed on “software anomaly.” |
|
1997 |
225 |
Radar that could have prevented Korean jet crash hobbled by software problem. |
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1997 |
1 |
Software-logic error causes infusion pump to deliver lethal dose of morphine sulfate. Gish Biomedical reprograms devices. |
|
1995 |
159 |
American Airlines jet, descending into Cali, Colombia, crashes into a mountain. Jury holds maker of flight-management system 17% responsible. A report by the University of Bielefeld in Germany found that the software presented insufficient and conflicting information to the pilots, who got lost. |
|
1991 |
28 |
Software problem prevents Patriot missile battery from picking up SCUD missile, which hits U.S. Army barracks in Saudi Arabia. |
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1985 |
3 |
Software-design flaws in Therac-25 treatment machine lead to radiation overdoses in U.S. and Canadian patients. |