"Saving face is BS". yes it is. Doesn't mean that people don't want to. I would submit that even highly trained disciplined pilots outside the cockpit want to in matters not of the cockpit. Equivocation is, in essence, saving face. Presenting some information but not information that is contrary or not part of the narrative could be laid at the doorstep of saving face. Consider how it feels when you have fess upped to being a moh-ron in the cockpit. I ain't perfect, and in observing my fellow FDX brethren for well over 2 decades in the cockpit, I ain't the exception either.