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

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

U.S. Indo-Pacific Command says that one U.S. service member and three defense contractors were killed when a plane contracted by the U.S. military crashed in a rice field in the southern Philippines.

A U.S. service member and three defense contractors were killed Thursday when a plane contracted by the U.S. military crashed in the southern Philippines.

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

A plane contracted by the US military crashed in a Philippine rice field, killing all four aboard. The accident occurred in Maguindanao del Sur, and the victims appeared to be foreign nationals. The incident highlights US military presence in the southern Philippines,

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 plane crashed in the Philippines, killing all four onboard, including a US service member. The incident is under investigation.

The body of a victim is covered with a blanket as members of security forces stand around wreckage of airplane in a rice field in Maguindanao del Sur province, Philippines,