The US Indo-Pacific command stated that an American service member and three defense contractors were killed on Thursday, when an aircraft contracted by an aircraft crashed in a rice ground in the southern Philippines, US Indo-Pacific command Said.
The aircraft said in a statement that the aircraft was operating a regular mission, providing intelligence, monitoring and reconnaissance support at the request of our Philippine colleagues. “It said that the cause of the accident was under investigation.
The Civil Aviation Authority of the Philippines confirmed the accident of a light aircraft in Magindanao del Sur Province. It did not provide other details immediately.
Amir Jihad Tim Ambolodo, a security officer of Magyindanao del Sur, said the bodies of four people were taken from rubble in Empatuan Town. The Indo-Pacific command said that the family information pending the name of the crew was being stopped.
A provincial disaster-mamn officer, Windy BT, told The Associated Press that he had received a report that Ara was seen by Ara Aara and heard an explosion before an explosion, causing a cluster from a cluster of the aircraft form a cluster to a ground lan. Fall for kilometers.
No one was reported to be injured at or near the accident site, which was closed by the soldiers, the beat said.
American forces have been deployed at a Philippine military camp in the south of the country for decades to help provide advice and training to the Filipino forces struggling with Muslim terrorists. The region is largely the motherland of minority Muslims in the Roman Catholic nation.