| Date | Deaths | Detail |
|---|---|---|
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 1985 | 3 | Software-design flaws in Therac-25 treatment machine lead to radiation overdoses in U.S. and Canadian patients. |
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