[grobdriver]

``I believe, 100 percent, that he and Donna decided, 'Here we go.' They knew they were going to die,'' Elizabeth Luyster, Alfred Zadow's sister, told Newsday. ``They had enough time to talk about it.''

This doesn't make any sense - the woman implies a suicide pact.
I have no doubt that the PIC was trying as hard as he could to get the aircraft down safely.
Looks like what happened here is a simple failure to maintain airspeed during an emergency landing. Stall/spin.

[Dick Vomer]

this is the second time this month that a "stall spin" might have been the cause of a crash.... Do the "stall proof" experimental planes have that problem? I'm not a pilot. I don't have the stones for it, though I've ridden in many types of aircraft.

Also, is there a computer simulator that you can purchase with footpedals and yoke that mimic the "stall". Maybe with the new faster computers and 3-D/goggles it might be profitable to develop a way of putting in the flight characteristics of the plane you're flying and practice stalling without dying.