
U.S. service member and 3 defense contractors killed in small plane crash in the Philippines
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One United States service member and three defense contractors are dead after a small airplane crashed in the Philippines on Thursday, officials said.
The aircraft was "providing intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance support" at the request of allies in the Philippines, U.S. Indo-Pacific Command Public Affairs said in a news release. It was a routine mission "in support of U.S.-Philippine security cooperation activities," the command said. The service member and defense contractors were the only people aboard the plane.
The plane crashed into a rice field near Ampatuan, a small municipality in the southern Maguindanao del Sur province.

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