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2) They misunderstood, or were confused by, what they were being shown
My money is on 2)
Not that I want to get into a semantics parsing issue, but misunderstanding is *not* the same as confusion, except maybe as a literary device - for example I've always considered "mode confusion" to be a misnomer, as accidents involving mode "confusion" rarely showed the pilots unsure of the setting they'd selected - they were convinced that they were in the right mode, all the way down to the ground in many cases. I think it means what it says - that they weren't getting any valid readings on an instrument (or possibly instruments), my money being on the ASI.