The CAIB believed that "the causes of the institutional failure responsible for Challenger have not been fixed," saying that the same "flawed decision making process" that had resulted in the Challenger accident was responsible for Columbia's destruction seventeen years later.
“造成对挑战者号（事故）负有责任的制度失效原因并未消除”，意即导致挑战者号事故“有瑕疵的决策过程”，在17年后同样对哥伦比亚号失事负有责任。