On Thursday, February 27, 2014 10:16:43 PM UTC-8, 2G wrote:
Unfortunately, all that can be learned is what we already know: you must fly coordinated and maintain airspeed in the pattern. This is a depressingly common type of accident.

Tom

Probably true, although you don't really know if there is something new to learn until you investigate the accident trail. It is precisely because stall/spin is the number one cause of fatalities by a wide margin, that we all know that and yet it continues to happen, that trying to understand the sequence of events that led this awful outcome is an important endeavor. Perhaps we learn nothing new, but even the reminder has value.

9B