Comments by "David Elliott" (@davidelliott5843) on "Ignored Warnings: The Columbia Space Shuttle Disaster 2003 | Documentary | Plainly Difficult" video.

This event proved that NASA management had learned next to nothing from the 1967 Apollo 1 oxygen fire. The whole setup was fundamentally flawed, yet they went ahead anyway. The Shuttle program was fundamentally flawed yet they went ahead anyway. Shuttle was an engineered botch job from day one. The surprise is there were only two catastrophic accidents.
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@dt99022 A bridge that falls like a pack of cards after a single impact suggests it was fundamentally flawed. Hopefully the replacement will be a cable stay type with support piers away from the water.
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The engineers said the chances of failure were x%. They should have said the chances of survival are y%. The difference in emphasis could well have swung the management to take real action rather than just trust to luck.
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