{"id":38184,"date":"2025-02-07T01:32:19","date_gmt":"2025-02-07T07:32:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=38184"},"modified":"2025-02-07T01:32:25","modified_gmt":"2025-02-07T07:32:25","slug":"u-s-service-member-and-3-contractors-killed-in-surveillance-mission-plane-crash-in-the-philippines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=38184","title":{"rendered":"U.S. service member and 3 contractors killed in surveillance mission plane crash in the Philippines"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">MANILA, Philippines \u2014 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&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/news\/world\/philippine-president-impeached-marcos-assassination-remark-rcna190929\">Philippines<\/a>, U.S. Indo-Pacific Command said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">The aircraft was conducting a routine mission \u201cproviding intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance support at the request of our Philippine allies,\u201d the command said in a statement. It said the cause of the crash was under investigation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">The Civil Aviation Authority of the Philippines also confirmed the crash of a light plane in Maguindanao del Sur province. It did not immediately provide other details.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">The bodies of the four people were retrieved from the wreckage in Ampatuan town, said Ameer Jehad Tim Ambolodto, a safety officer of Maguindanao del Sur. Indo-Pacific Command said the names of the crew were being withheld pending family notifications.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Windy Beaty, a provincial disaster-mitigation officer, told The Associated Press that she received reports that residents saw smoke coming from the plane and heard an explosion before the aircraft plummeted to the ground about half a mile from a cluster of farmhouses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Nobody was reported injured on or near the crash site, which was cordoned off by troops, Beaty said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">A water buffalo on the ground was killed as a result of the plane crash, local officials said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">U.S. forces have been deployed in a Philippine military camp in the country\u2019s south for decades to help provide advice and training to Filipino forces battling Muslim militants. The region is the homeland of minority Muslims in the largely Roman Catholic nation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/news\/world\/us-service-member-3-contractors-killed-plane-crash-philippines-rcna191134\">Nbcnews<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA, Philippines \u2014 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&nbsp;Philippines, U.S. Indo-Pacific Command said. The aircraft was conducting a routine mission \u201cproviding intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance support at the request of our Philippine allies,\u201d the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":38185,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1152],"tags":[1247,5135,2185,6085,22990],"class_list":["post-38184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-humanrights","tag-death","tag-defense-contractors","tag-philippines","tag-plane-crash","tag-us-soldiers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38184","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38184"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38184\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38186,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38184\/revisions\/38186"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/38185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}