"Investigators looking into the crash of Spanair Flight 5022 at Madrid International Airport on August 20, 2008, killing 154, found that the airline’s central computer system used to monitor technical problems in its fleet was infected with malware" - Simon

So far no one is claiming malware caused the problem, just that it was there. But getting software right is hard enough without making it robust to the sort of environment malware might create. - Seth

Yeah, their headline is rather misleading. It'll be interesting to see how much of a role (if any) it played in the accident. - Simon