SmallShake,
Thank you for creating such a thorough post. I went through your reproduction steps and pushed it to my iPad Air which is on iOS version 8.0. I did not receive a crash, I attempted this quite a few times by launch, package and by the project launcher steps that you provided, to see if there was a difference. Since I was unable to replicate this crash, would you zip a sample project up that it has occurred on so I can test your project.
Have you noticed this happening more in source or binary, or both the same?
Thanks!