Sgt. Jacob M. Durham, 22, of Long Beach, died in the crash of an aircraft that was conducting a routine mission, Camp Pendleton, Calif., officials said.

The United States service member who was killed alongside three defense contractors when their small plane crashed in the Philippines has been identified as a Marine from California.

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.

Four people were killed when a U.S. military-contracted plane crashed in a rice field in southern Philippines on Thursday, the U.S. Indo-Pacific Command announced.

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.

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.