A US military aircraft contracted by the US Defense Department crashed in the southern Philippines, resulting in the tragic loss of all four individuals on board. The incident occurred during a routine intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance mission in support of US-Philippine security cooperation.
A small plane contracted by the US Defense Department crashed in the southern Philippines on Thursday, killing all four people on board, including one US service member, the US Indo-Pacific Command announced. The aircraft was providing intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance support at the request of our Philippine allies, the Indo-Pacific Command said in a statement about the crash on Mindanao island.
The incident occurred during a routine mission in support of US-Philippine security cooperation activities.The US military said one service member and three defense contractors were killed in the incident. They were not immediately identified pending notification of their families. Small numbers of American troops are put on short-term rotational deployments in the Philippines, where the US military has helped provide intelligence to troops battling militants linked to the Islamic State group that remain active on Mindanao. The Philippine military said in a statement it could not release information about the crash as the matter was classified and an investigation was ongoing. Regional police spokesman Jopy Ventura told Agence France Presse (AFP) that officers had not yet determined the cause of the fixed-wing aircraft’s crash on a farm near the municipality of Ampatuan. Police and soldiers were deployed to the site to prevent potential tampering with evidence, the spokesman said. The plane’s tail number, identified by police as N349CA, was registered to defense firm Metrea, according to flight-tracking site FlightAware, which identified it as a Beechcraft Super King Air B300. The Metrea website describes the company as a “leading provider of effects-as-a-service to national security partners across multiple domains and over a dozen mission areas.” Municipal rescuer Rhea Martin told AFP her team had found four dead bodies at the crash site. “The bodies were found near the plane,” she told AFP, adding: “The plane was cut in half.
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