“ The crew stated they were in a heated discussion over airline policy and they lost situational awareness.
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Airliner overshoots airport; controllers feared hijacking - CNN.com (via smalter)
The NY Times adds, “”It just doesn’t make any sense,” Bill Voss, president of the Flight Safety Foundation in Alexandria, Va., told The A.P. “The pilots are saying they were involved in a heated conversation. Well, that was a very long conversation.”
