( CNN ) -- Two crew members were taken to a hospital after a FedEx cargo plane crashed on landing Tuesday morning at the Lubbock , Texas , airport , officials said . A damaged FedEx ATR-42 lies beside a runway early Tuesday at the Lubbock , Texas , airport . The injuries appeared to be minor , said James Loomis , director of Lubbock Preston Smith International Airport . There was a small fire on the plane , the Federal Aviation Administration and FedEx spokeswoman Sandra Munoz said . Munoz said she was not sure about the extent of the damage . The plane is an ATR-42 twin-turboprop aircraft and landed short of the touchdown zone at 4:37 a.m. CT ( 5:47 ET ) , Loomis said . Munoz said the plane had been traveling from Fort Worth Alliance Airport and skidded off the runway amid light freezing rain . iReport.com : Are you there ? Send photos , video . Neither official could immediately say what caused the accident , and Munoz did n't know why parts of the plane caught fire . The plane was operated by Empire Airways , which is under contract with FedEx Corp. , based in Memphis , Tennessee .
Fire reported as plane goes off runway in freezing rain at Texas , Lubbock , airport . Two crew members hospitalized with apparently minor injuries , official says . ATR-42 twin-turboprop operated by FedEx under lease to Empire Airways .