Dodge City ? Three crew members aboard an air ambulance died early Tuesday morning when their plane crashed near this western Kansas community, authorities said.

Wichita-based air ambulance service EagleMed identified the crew members as pilot Brandon Bow, of Dallas, Texas; and medical crew members Jonathan Dye, of Meade, and Jennifer Hauptman, of Coldwater.

No patients were aboard the air ambulance, which crashed just before 3 a.m. about 10 miles west of Dodge City Regional Airport, the Kansas Highway Patrol said. There were no survivors.

The Federal Aviation Administration said the plane, a 1968 Beech King Air 90, departed from Wichita Mid-Continent Airport and crashed on private land short of its destination.

Mike Klein, manager of the Dodge City Regional Airport, said the plane was flying to the airport and “they had the airport in sight.”

“The weather was clear at that time,” he said. “It didn’t seem to be a weather-related incident, but still, it’s still too early in the game.”

EagleMed said it will continue to provide air ambulance service in its six-state coverage area. This crash is the first in EagleMed’s 22-year history, according to the company’s Web site.

The crash was one of three involving small planes in the region in the past two days.

Two people from Kansas died Tuesday morning when their plane crashed four miles east of Rich Hill, Mo., near the Missouri-Kansas border. On Monday, a 60-year-old Pratt man was killed when his single-engine Cessna 182Q crashed into a western Pawnee County wheat field along Kansas 156, near Rozel.