Small plane crashes in Colorado just east of Erie Airport runway, police say

A small plane crashed in the Colorado town of Erie on Sunday afternoon, just east of the runway at the Erie Municipal Airport, according to police.

The Erie Police Department posted a photo of the crash just before 4 p.m. In an update Sunday night, the police department said there were no survivors in the single-engine plane crash.

Police said both people on board the aircraft were not residents of Colorado, and that there are no plans at this time to release their identities.

Erie is about 25 miles northwest of Denver and 13 miles east of Boulder.

The airport, owned by the town and in the southwest corner of Weld County, sees approximately 35,000 takeoffs and landings each year, according to the FAA, most of which occur on the weekends. It's bordered by single-family homes to the east, which were seen in the background of the photo posted by police.

An automated email reply from the FAA in response to a request for more information read, "Due to a lapse in funding, the FAA is not responding to routine media inquiries;" a result of the ongoing government shutdown.

An Erie police spokesman told CBS News Colorado that FAA investigators responded to the scene. They shared that the FAA and National Transportation Safety Board will be investigating the crash, and the Erie Airport remains closed for the time being. Authorities did not provide an estimate for when the airport will reopen.