[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.

[Calpernia]

I think it is more than a 2nd time. I think it is the 2nd time in a month on the East Coast; but I remember seeing a few Cessna articles about crashing in, California?, also.

[grobdriver]

About the only "stall proof" - actually "stall resistant" -aircraft out there are canards, and they have their own set of problems.
Practicing stalls only helps so much. In this example I have no doubt that the pilot in command could have recovered given sufficient altitude.
When you're out of power, out of altitude, out of airspeed and out of luck, it really doesn't matter.

Not every stall will kill you - hell, I ran into an accelerated stall at the top of a loop just last weekend, because I didn't take the high density altitude into account during the maneuver.