A small plane crash-landed on Last Dollar Road, northwest of the Telluride Airport, early Friday morning. The San Miguel County Sheriff's Office received a report of a plane down alongside the road at 8:15 a.m. and dispatched deputies, the Telluride Fire Department and Telluride Airport Personnel to the scene.

The pilot, the only person onboard, sustained minor injuries, and was transported to Montrose Memorial Hospital by a private vehicle, according to a San Miguel County Sheriff's Office report. The pilot's name was not released.

The plane was a single-engine Cessna 207, N-number 207GR, according to Federal Aviation Administration spokesperson Allen Kenitzer. The FAA website lists the fixed wing, turbo-prop plane as registered to Blue Sky Telluride, LLC.

Preliminary information about the accident indicated the pilot was performing a landing at the Telluride airport, but for some reason was forced to land off the airport landing strip in what Kenitzer called a "hard landing." There was "substantial damage to the plane," said Kenitzer.

"Anything could have happened" to cause the accident. "This information is all very preliminary," he added.