A single-engine plane crashed Friday as it was departing from the Dane County Regional Airport, and three people were inflicted with minor injuries.

The plane was taking off on a runway when it deviated from its course, airport spokesperson Brent McHenry said. The plane was a single-engine, general aviation private aircraft, he said.

McHenry said all three people abroad the plane had minor injuries, and were taken to the hospital as a precautionary measure.

“The injured passengers originally did not want to go to the hospital,” Bernadette Galvez, spokesperson for the Madison Police Department, said. “They were transported to St. Mary’s, I believe for precautionary purposes. I do not know the extent of the passengers’ circumstances, but I do know they were minor injuries.”

Galvez said there was a fire from the debris, which airport firefighters and City of Madison firefighters extinguished.

According to McHenry, there is an investigation going on by the Federal Aviation Administration, and legally the airport cannot speculate as to what caused the plane crash.

Galvez said it is not known whether or not the wheels of the plane were off the ground at the time but that it is something the FAA will be looking into.

“The FAA will look into what caused the fires,” Galvez said. “They are the ones who will figure out what happened in the crash and how it was caused.”

The Dane County Regional Airport was shut down for approximately half an hour during the crash, Galvez said. They opened up the primary runway so there was no traffic interruption after that.

The airport had kept two runways closed because they were waiting for the FAA to arrive during that time, she said.

Galvez said luckily, incidents like this do not happen often.