The plane crashed during what U.S. Indo-Pacific Command described as “a routine mission" Authorities say four people are dead after a small military plane crashed in the Philippines. A U.S. military service member and three defense contractors were onboard the aircraft on Thursday,

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

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 Philippines.