James Sleeman wrote in message
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On Jun 19, 9:58 am, wrote:

The reporters never seem to get that a stall has nothing to do with
the engine.

I don't think it's fair to blame reporters, probably what was said is
"he flew into the canyon and stalled the aircraft trying to get out"
or something like that, a reporter is not (necessarily) a pilot, stall
in the common man's vocabularly is associated with engines not wings.

When talking to lay-persons, reporters especially, pilots and
associated personell should avoid that S word and spell out the
ramifications instead.

What they should have been told is something like "he flew into the
canyon and in trying to get back out they inadverantly caused the wing
to stop producing lift".

That doesn't sound much more useful to the average person. I would think
"they ended up flying too slow." would be adequate.

- Rick