If you're interested in this, you would enjoy reading the analysis of the breakup of the shuttle Columbia (not the earlier Challenger analysis, which is in itself interesting). Give yourself an hour.

The basic link is: http://www.nasa.gov/columbia/home/CAIB_Vol1.html

Start at chapter 2, on page 27. Highlights: "lock the doors" (page 44), the hunt for debris (page 45), reconstruction (page 47, 72, 74ff). It's really an amazing engineering detective story.

The fault tree analysis methodology is on page 85ff.