A local pilot reacts to the Taiwan plane crash

It’s the video that has gone viral.

Out of nowhere a plane comes into view of a dashboard camera, clips a truck on a bridge and crashes into a river.

“To me it appears to be a classic stall, from base leg to final approach. It looks like he was too low and too slow,” said Al Uhalt.

Uhalt has been flying planes for years.

His six seat plane has thousands of air miles, but his reaction is no different than anyone else when he saw the footage.

“There goes another one…and that’s about it,” he said.

Uhalt knows this plane – an ATC-72 – has a good safety record. He says that it should have been able to stay airborne.

“It should be able to fly fully loaded with one engine,” he said.

Despite this recent accident and other ones that we’ve seen over the past few months, flying commercially from airports like Colorado Springs Municipal is still a safe way to travel.

That’s why some people were able to be airlifted away from this crash.

“They build planes these days to have a cage around you,” said Uhalt.

But there is one thing that Uhalt says could improve the already good performance of airline pilots in the future.

“I would like to see airline pilots get more manual training,” he said.

So that the friendly skies can continue to be the safe skies.

Uhalt says that he’s landed at a similar airport to the Songshan Airport, at the old airport in Hong Kong.