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

The aircraft was conducting a routine mission “providing intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance support at the request of our Philippine allies,” officials said.

A U.S. military service member and three contractors have died following a plane crash in the Philippines, officials say.

The plane was conducting intelligence and reconnaissance support “at the request of our Philippine allies,” according to the U.S. military.

Four Americans were killed in a plane crash in the southern Philippines. A U.S. service member and three defence contractors were onboard the Beech King Air 350 plane, with body number N349CA, when the aircraft plummeted from the sky and crash-landed into a rice field in Maguindanao del Sur province,

A DOD-contracted aircraft flying an intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance mission crashed in the Philippines, killing all four on board, federal officials said.