IDAHO FALLS — The Bonneville County Sheriff’s Office and Idaho Falls Fire Department responded to reports of a downed airplane in the Lincoln Road and Foothill Road area, according to a press release from Bonneville County Sheriff’s Office.

According to the press release, emergency personnel located the small, single-engine plane to the side of the road. There were two adult passengers inside. Neither were injured.

The pilot of the airplane told deputies they were forced to make an emergency landing after losing power to the engine. According to the press release, the slick conditions of the road caused the airplane to slide off the road and turn up on its nose before coming to a safe stop.

Bonneville County deputies notified the Federal Aviation Administration of the situation and worked with the pilot to get the airplane off the road.

Bryan Lovell of the Bonneville County Sheriff’s Office said the area where the airplane landed is east of Idaho Falls. He said there was no significant property damage.

“There are fields nearby on either side,” he said. “I don’t believe there was any property damage.”

Lovell said one of the men in the plane was the pilot and the other was a student pilot. They had taken off in Pocatello and were flying to Rexburg when the incident happened.

“The pilot implemented emergency protocols,” he said. “But they couldn’t quite make it to the Idaho Falls Airport.”

Lovell said it is fortunate the incident wasn’t worse than it actually was.

“Pilots go through training and protocols in the event of emergencies,” he said. “There’s a certain amount of things they can do if they can’t make it to a landing strip.”