[skipkey]

I vaguely remember reading about that actually happening some years ago. Control system written in C++, bad data comes in from a sensor causing a floating point exception which was not caught locally, and the outermost catch code was basically, “explode the rocket”.

Might have been in the c++ Users Journal or Dr Dobbs in the late 90s.

[trothamel]

Probably the first flight of Ariane 5:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ariane_flight_V88