I have posted that the Cougar accident had great similarity to the Shuttle Challenger and that the Fineman Appendix F of that report discusses how this can happen.
Now it appears Columbia suffered the same fate. Lessons never learned.
Linked article of interest. Especially the crew saying it looks bad and managers saying it did not look too bad to them.
Spaceflight Now | STS-119 Shuttle Report | Legendary commander tells story of shuttle's close call
The relevance is the mind set of decision making which does not extrapolate the potential results of an event and mitigate the chance of the worst case scenarios.
The Sultan