Ian, that was a caption for the file photo that accompanied the article. I removed it from the quote for clarity.
I admit Leah, its a horribly written piece. This is the first time I have ever heard of a "mid-air incident", which apparently is a phrase that this cub reporter coined all alone. If the reporter is that ignorant, it stands to reason he never heard of "Level Flight" and just assumed no one else has either.
Keep this in mind folks, when you read anything published by a news service. When we see so many journalistic errors in a piece about a subject we know about, imagine how many more there must be in the pieced written on subjects we don't know about!