I've made a very simple working one with the KSPX escape tower.
EDIT: I, uh, added a parachute to the nosecone, and the shuttle re-entered backwards. And glided backwards. And landed safely. Engines first, cockpit last.
Well, I guess the very small consolation is that it happened on a 3-person spacecraft, then they added measures to fix it. It would have been worse on the shuttle. At least NASA DID change the spacesuits etc. after the Apollo 1 accident. It would have been 1000 times worse if they hadn't, and more people had died...