U.S. Indo-Pacific Command says that one U.S. service member and three defense contractors were killed when a plane contracted by the U.S. military crashed in a rice field in the southern Philippines.

The Civil Aviation Authority of the Philippines (CAAP) said Friday it is investigating the plane crash that killed one US service member and three defense contractors in Maguindanao del Sur. The US military-contracted aircraft crashed in Barangay Malatimon,

A US-contracted surveillance plane crashed in the Philippines on Thursday morning, killing all four personnel on board, including one US military service member, according to US Indo-Pacific Command.