Wakefulness-impaired pilots have plane-landing issues

There’s two quality corporate euphemisms in this news article, about a flight that appeared to get lost and failed to land, possibly because the pilots were asleep. See if you can guess their real meanings!

Reports that the pilots may have fallen asleep were "speculative" but the investigation would look at fatigue issues.

The crew stated they were in a heated discussion over airline policy and lost situational awareness.

This ‘discussion’ must have been very heated to produce a flight path like this one:

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