Monticello — A passenger and two pilots were able to walk away unharmed Saturday after a plane they were on went off the runway at the local airport during a landing and collided with a fence.

Emergency personnel rushed to Lake Cumberland Regional Airport Saturday after receiving reports of a minor plane crash on the runway involving a Locair, Inc. plane.

The pilots, identified as Timothy Borrup and Sagar Dave in a press release from the Somerset Police Department, and a lone passenger were not injured in the incident.

The incident happened at approximately 3:30 p.m. when a Fairchild Metro III plane owned by Locair, Inc. veered off the runway.

The plane left the runway after touchdown during the landing, according to Somerset Fire Department Captain Mark Catron and SPD Detective Shannon Smith

"After landing, there was a malfunction with the front steering and it caused him (the pilot) to veer off," Catron said.

The plane was on a return flight from the Baltimore-Washington International Airport.

Questions as to what exactly happened to cause the malfunction during the incident will remain unanswered until the Federal Aviation Administration, or FAA, arrives to conduct an investigation, said Smith.

"As far as what happened, there could be a number of different scenarios that could've led to the end result," Smith said.

The plane went off the runway and hit a fence before coming to a stop over a small embankment in the grass. Emergency personnel‹including a fire and rescue unit that remains at the airport during take-offs and landings‹swarmed the scene soon after the incident occurred.

Officials said the plane sustained some damage.

Locair General Manager Nathan Vallier said the damage is repairable, and that the company will attempt to keep a normal flight schedule throughout the rest of the week.

Catron said there was no fuel or other hazardous material on the ground.

According to a statement released by Vallier about the incident, Locair is conducting its own internal investigation and will work alongside any inquiries by the United States National Transporta-tion Safety Board, or NTSB, and the FAA.

Vallier said the NTSB will more than likely not investigate because specific criteria must be met‹including injuries sustained by passengers and significant damage to the aircraft‹before an investigation is opened.

Investigators with the FAA are expected to be at the site Sunday.

Locair operates under FAA authority as an air-taxi, providing on demand passenger & cargo service to United States and Caribbean destinations and is based out of Florida.

Also responding to the scene alongside the Somerset Fire Department and SPD were Somerset-Pulaski EMS, Kentucky Emergency Management and Public Safety Director Tiger Robinson.