KIGALI, RWANDA (BNO NEWS) — At least several people were injured after a RwandAir commuter plane slammed into a wall in Rwanda’s capital on Thursday afternoon, airline officials told BNO News.

The accident happened around 12.53 p.m. local time at Kigali International Airport after the aircraft, a 57-seat Bombardier CRJ100 plane, made an emergency landing at the airport. The aircraft is officially owned by Kenya-based JetLink Express but is operated by RwandAir.

Local media reports initially claimed the plane had crashed after take-off, but officials denied those reports. “It didn’t crash,” JetLink’s commercial manager told BNO News by telephone. Officials with both JetLink Express and RwandAir had different versions of what exactly took place.

RwandAir Acting-CEO Jack Ekl told BNO News that the plane reported a problem shortly after it had taken off from Kigali airport. After making a safe emergency landing at the airport where it took off, the aircraft taxied to the parking bay of the airport. “Just as they stopped the aircraft, the engine suddenly went to one-hundred percent power,” Ekl said. JetLink’s commercial manager said it had struck the wall of the airport’s VIP Lounge, but said no one inside the building was injured.

A total of fifteen people were on board the aircraft, including five crew members. “[All passengers] came out on their own power,” Ekl said, adding that everyone was taken to a local hospital for observation. Ekl believed one of the passengers, a woman, had passed away at the hospital, but said he had not yet received confirmation from officials.

The plane’s co-pilot remained trapped inside the aircraft about 4.5 hours after the accident, and the captain suffered a broken leg. Besides the captain and co-pilot, two flight attendants and one aircraft mechanic were on board. Ekl said the passengers existed of nine adults and one infant.

Ekl added that investigative teams from Kenya would respond to investigate the accident, and said that the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) from the United States might investigate as well. A spokesman for the NTSB in Washington, D.C. said it had not yet received information about the incident and could not say if it would respond to investigate.

The NTSB often assists to investigate plane crashes and other serious accidents that occurred in foreign countries.