GOODLAND, Kan. (AP) — The Kansas Highway Patrol says a pilot escaped injury when a freight plane crashed in northwest Kansas.

Emergency crews are on the scene of the twin-engine plane crash in Sherman County. It was reported about 9 a.m. Wednesday. No passengers were on board

Kansas Highway Patrol Trooper Tod Hileman says the plane was carrying UPS cargo. It was registered to Key Lime Air of Englewood, Colorado.

The company said in a statement that the plane experienced and engine “anomaly” during the flight and went down safely in a rural area near Goodland.

Hileman says the Federal Aviation Administration has been notified of the crash.

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GOODLAND -Officials are at the scene of a plane crash in Sherman County northwest of Goodland that happened Wednesday morning.

Kansas Highway Patrol Trooper Tod Hileman said a twin engine plane crashed in Sherman County about 8:56 a.m. Central Time near the intersection of county roads 10 and 71.

According to Hileman the plane was carrying freight and registered to Key Lime Air of Englewood, Colorado.

Hileman said the pilot is “OK.”