Michael Ash writes:

No final report yet, but everything indicates that the loss of engine
power was due to ice in the fuel system, which in turn was due to flying
through unusually cold air.

So it wasn't really anyone's fault? What's the recommended solution?

You really are the master of destroying context. It's quite astounding.
I'm guessing it's not deliberate, but this kind of thing really looks
extremely sneaky and underhanded.

Perhaps all the evil you see is in your own interpretation of what you read.

And don't paint all private pilots with the same brush.

I don't. There are plenty of smart ones around.

Since you're apparently incapable of understanding irony or subtlety
despite supposedly being at least occasionally an ESL teacher, I guess
I'll have to spell out why this is such a terrible thing to say. The
combination of "There are plenty of smart ones" with "I don't paint them
all with the same brush" heavily implies that the brush you're using right
now is the "stupid" brush.

No, it simply states that I make a distinction between smart and stupid
pilots, so I'm not painting them all with the same brush.

In other words, in the above exchange, you called every private pilot you
talk to "stupid", and implied to a somewhat lesser extent that a lot of
private pilots in general are stupid.

I don't understand how you arrived at that conclusion.

And then to really spell it out very
plainly, this implication that the people you're talking to are stupid is
highly insulting.

Some people see everything as an insult. I have no control over that; it is a
consequence of their own psychology, not anything that I do.

For example, if you tell one person that she looks nice today, she might say
"Thank you." If you tell another person that she looks nice today, she might
say "What was wrong with the way I looked yesterday?" The problem is at the
receiving end, not the sending end.

If I say, "it's difficult for me to deal with stupid people," and someone says
to me, "you're calling me stupid?" chances are that he thinks of himself as
stupid, and so he assumes that everyone else considers him stupid as well.
That's his psychological problem, not mine.

Ah right, reading comprehension, alongside logic and being nice to people,
is one of those skills you inexplicably lack despite acting as though
you're very smart.

What makes you think that I'm acting?

Why do you ask the question if you don't know why anyone should care?

Because you bring it up all the time as if it were some sort of flaw and
it's annoying.

So you obviously care about it. In that case, why did you say that you don't
know why anyone should care?