Four killed after US military contractor plane crashes in Philippines Officials refuse to reveal details about aircraft or its mission, citing security classification.
The aircraft was on a routine intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance mission at the request of Philippine authorities when it went down in a rice field in Maguindanao del Sur province, the command said.
A US military-contracted aircraft crashed in the southern Philippines on Thursday, killing one service member and three defence contractors, the US Indo-Pacific Command has confirmed.
"The incident occurred during a routine mission in support of US-Philippine security cooperation activities,” the Indo-Pacific Command said in a statement about the crash on Mindanao island.
Windy Beaty, a provincial disaster officer, told the Associated Press that witnesses saw smoke and heard an explosion before the aircraft crashed less than a kilometre from a cluster of farmhouses.
