The aircraft was on a mission, providing intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance at the request of US Philippine allies.

A US-contracted surveillance plane crashed in the Philippines on Thursday morning, killing all four personnel on board, including one US military service member, according to US Indo-Pacific Command.

MANILA, Philippines (AP) — One U.S. service member and three defense contractors were killed Thursday when a plane contracted by the U.S. military crashed in a rice field in the southern Philippines, U.S. Indo-Pacific Command said.

One United States service member and three defense contractors are dead after a small airplane crashed in the Philippines on Thursday, officials said.

A U.S. Marine and and three Pentagon contractors died after an aircraft went down in the Philippines Thursday, officials said.

Officials say a U.S. military-contracted plane has crashed in a rice field in the southern Philippines, killing all four people on board.

Four people are dead after a U.S. military-contracted plane crashed in the Philippines on Thursday, officials said.

The aircraft was conducting a routine mission “providing intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance support at the request of our Philippine allies,” officials said.

A US military-contracted aircraft crashed in the southern Philippines, killing one service member and three contractors. The incident occurred during a mission supporting intelligence operations for the Philippines.

A plane contracted by the U.S. military crashed in a rice field in the southern Philippines, killing all four people on board including one service

MANILA: A small plane that crashed in the southern Philippines on Thursday (Feb 6), killing at least four people on board, was contracted by the American military, the United States embassy