LAS VEGAS -- Emergency preparedness officials are taking another step in their education by tackling a downed plane. During a training session at the North Las Vegas airport, firefighters were drilled on techniques for handling a crashed airplane.

Nearly 100 emergency responders were called out to the small plane crash. When they arrived, dozens of passengers were hurt. Crews treated the injured and gave them oxygen as if this was a real disaster.

"It's quite unique because you don't get the opportunity to train on them as often as we would in our house fires," said Cedric Williams with the North Las Vegas Fire Department. "We can train a lot easier, but you don't always get to come across an airplane incident."

Small planes have crashed at or near the North Las Vegas Airport before. In April, a plane had to land in a busy intersection just outside the airport and two other plane crashed around Thanksgiving.

Forbes.com named North Las Vegas Airport one the most dangerous in the U.S. Officials from the Clark County Aviation Department said there are several factors that lead to these sort of incidents.

"It's not an airport issue, it's a pilot-error issue," CCAD official Chris Jones said. "All we can do is control what we can control. We've put in tens of millions of dollars to improve this airport -- everything from lowering power lines underground to putting in new air traffic control systems and towers. It's safe airport."

Crews at the simulated plane crash said they will use the response information to improve techniques and response tactics.