PENROSE, N.C. -- Two men are dead after their single-engine plane crashed Monday afternoon near the Transylvania County Airport.

Airport officials told FOX Carolina News that the plane was approaching for landing when it crashed just after 4:30 p.m.

Officials said the plane was home-built and both of the men on board were from the Penrose area.

The plane crashed in the driveway of a home of an Old Hendersonville Highway just a few hundred yards from the airport.

Witnesses said they saw the plane flying overhead shortly before the crash.

“I thought something was wrong, I mean, I just thought something might be wrong with it,” said a witness who didn’t want to be identified.

The witness said she saw the plane from her back deck. “It was just going back and forth a little, but not anything real strange. It was small, like a glider,” the woman said.

FOX Carolina Chief Meteorologist Kendra Kent said storms were in the area capable of producing lighting around the time of the crash.

Witnesses near the crash site said the sky was dark, but it wasn’t raining and there wasn’t any visible lightning.

Officials on scene told FOX Carolina News that it looked as if the plane might have clipped a few trees before crashing. But investigators said they were still in the beginning stages of their investigation.

The Transylvania County Sheriff’s Office was guarding the crash site. The Federal Aviation Administration has sent an investigator from Charlotte to help in the investigation.

Deputies identified the victims as 59-year-old Duane Sorenson, of Pisgah Forest, and 63-year-old Richard Norton, of Brevard.