There is a sci-fi short story whose name escapes me of a spaceship using some new FTL drive, but has largely been untested due to an impending doom. The math is said to be solid, however.

Anyway the drive powers up, and the spaceship jumps, and.... all the crew and passengers are left behind, choking in space.

I feel like this could be a scene in Rick and Morty, with someone commenting, "Guess their Math was off"

something an awful lot like this happens with interdimensional travel in Pratchett and Baxter's 'The Long Earth'. The basic plot driver is humans discovering a way to travel to the different timelines predicted by the many worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics, and every once in a while as you're bopping across dimensions from Earth to Earth you end up in a dimension or even a series of dimensions where, due to some sort of historical happenstance, Earthn't.