U.S. service member and 3 contractors killed in surveillance mission plane crash in the Philippines

Manila, the Filipino-American Indian Pacific said that a US military contract and three defense contractors were killed by the US military, when the US military signed a rice field in southern Philippines.

The command said in a statement that the aircraft was organizing a normal mission to provide intelligence, surveillance and maintenance support at the request of our Filipino allies. He said the cause of the accident is under investigation.

The Philippines’ Civil Aviation Authority also confirmed a light plane crash in the Magondano Dale Sor Province. He did not immediately provide other details.

The bodies of the four persons were recovered from the rubble in Ampatwan Town. The Indo -Pacific Command said that the names of the staff are being brought under family information.

Wandy daughter, a provincial devastation officer, told the Associate Press that they received information that residents saw smoke coming from the plane and heard the sound of an explosion before half a mile from a plane’s fields. At a distance the aircraft fell to the ground.

The daughter said no one was injured at the site of the accident or around her, which was surrounded by soldiers.

Local officials said water buffaloes were killed on the ground as a result of the plane crash.

US forces have been deployed to a military camp in the Philippines in the south of the country for decades to help provide advice and training to the Philippine forces fighting Muslim militants. The region is the homeland of minority Muslims in a large scale Roman Catholic nation.

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