Nine years later, the "Kraft report" was again criticized, this time by the "Columbia" Accident Investigation Board (CAIB) as part of its consideration of the organizational and cultural causes of the "Columbia" accident. "The report," it said, "characterized the Space Shuttle program in a way that the Board judges to be at odds with the realities of the Shuttle Program." According to the CAIB, the "Kraft report" had contributed to the undesirable safety culture within NASA, allowing NASA to view the shuttle as an operational—rather than experimental—vehicle, and distracting attention from continuing engineering anomalies.