This comment assumes the wing is the same shape throughout its length. Yes, a stall occurs when alpha reaches a critical angle, which is when CL begins to decrease, but the wings do not go from not stalled to stalled in a moment. Flow separation in most GA aircraft, Mooneys included, starts at the root of the wing. Additionally, we know CL will never be zero, as long as a fuselage exists or there is some flow across a wing below 90 degrees AoA.
Also since you insist on being pedantic... Free fall doesn't mean what you think it does. You would have a free fall if you had no engine producing trust, wings at a zero-lift AoA, somehow a fuselage/tail that didn't produce any lift when the wings are at zero-lift AoA, and no wind, which Im sure, you know, is not exactly possible.
