US service member, 3 contractors killed in surveillance mission plane crash in southern Philippines

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US service member, 3 contractors killed in surveillance mission plane ****** in southern Philippines

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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.

The aircraft was conducting a routine mission “providing intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance support at the request of our Philippine allies,” the command said in a statement. It said the cause of the ****** was under investigation.

The Civil Aviation Authority of the Philippines also confirmed the ****** of a light plane in Maguindanao del Sur province. It did not immediately provide other details.

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The bodies of the four people were retrieved from the wreckage in Ampatuan town, said Ameer Jehad Tim Ambolodto, a safety officer of Maguindanao del Sur. Indo-Pacific Command said the names of the crew were being withheld pending family notifications.

Windy Beaty, a provincial disaster-mitigation officer, told The Associated Press that she received reports that residents saw smoke coming from the plane and heard an explosion before the aircraft plummeted to the ground less than a kilometer (about half a mile) from a cluster of farmhouses.

Nobody was reported injured on or near the ****** site, which was cordoned off by troops, Beaty said.

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