A small airplane with three people aboard crashed in western Oregon on Friday, officials said.

The aircraft, identified as N329BW, took off from Salem at 9:55 a.m. local time and was heading south on an IFR flight plan to Klamath Falls, , said Mike Fergus, a regional spokesman for the Federal Aviation Administration, according to the Associated Press. The crash occurred at about 10:19 a.m.

Witnesses said the plane was “in a spin, out of control” Tim Mueller, the Linn County sheriff said.

"There's no indication that it tried to land or skidded. It looks like it just hit where it hit," he said.

All three passengers died in the crash. They were identified as owner and pilot Louis Jay Lamb, 49, Steven Teeney, 36, and Riley Bunn, 32. Lamb is believed to have been flying the men to a hunting convention in Utah.

Officials from Federal Aviation Administration and the National Transportation Safety Board arrived at the scene of the crash and are currently investigating the cause which might have led to the accident.

The plane is registered to Louis Jay Lamb, who owns a tree farm in nearby Sublimity. Lamb is also a licensed pilot, but it is not known if he was piloting the plane or was on board at the time of the crash.