The plane, which had been contracted by the Pentagon, went down during a routine mission in the southern Philippines, the U.S. military said.

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

All four people onboard were killed after a small plane contracted by the US Defence Department crashed in the southern ...

THE Civil Aviation Authority of the Philippines (CAAP) said it has started investigating the plane crash in Maguindanao del Sur that killed a US military serviceman and three US defense contractors ...

According to the PNP, eyewitnesses reported seeing smoke coming from the aircraft before it plummeted to the ground.