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The USAF's new F-22 ran into a nasty software bug over the Pacific when
eight of these fighters were making the type's first deployment
overseas. In the words of Major General (retired) Don Shepperd, CNN
military consultant, "At the international date line, whoops, all
systems dumped and when I say all systems, I mean all systems, their
navigation, part of their communications, their fuel systems... they
could have been in real trouble... they tried to reset their systems,
couldn't get them reset. The tankers brought them back to Hawaii... They
are on a 12 to 15-hour flight from Hawaii to Okinawa, but all their
systems dumped. They needed help. Had they gotten separated from their
tankers or had the weather been bad, they had no attitude reference.
They had no communications or navigation. They would have turned around
and probably could have found the Hawaiian Islands."

http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0702/24/tww.01.html
(The relevant part is about halfway through the transcript, right after
a commercial break.)

Years ago, when I worked in the B-2 flight test program, I remember we
did one flight across the Equator for the express purpose of verifying
that nothing would go haywire in south latitudes. Can't remember if the
same was done for east longitudes.

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