A member of the American service was killed in the crash of the Philippines known as the California Marine

Member of the United States Service that was Killed along with three defense contractors When their small plane crashed into the Philippines, the California Marine Infantry was identified.

Sergeant. Jacob M. Durham on Thursday, when a plane with which the US military contracted is running a routine mission “to provide intelligence, monitoring and reconnaissance information at the request of our Filipino allies,” officials at the Bandalton camp in California said in a statement.

The statement did not include Omar Durham and California, where it was. Officials did not immediately respond to the Associated Press email messages that request that information.

The General Command of India and the Pacific in the United States said in a press statement on Thursday that the flight was part of a routine mission “to support security cooperation activities in the Philippines”, and that there were only four people on board. The plane crashed into the rice field near Ambawan, a small municipality in the Maggundano del Sur province.

The officials said the cause of the accident was under investigation.

The Civil Aviation Authority in the Philippines confirmed the crash of a light plane in the Magyndana de Dell Sur Province. Amir Jen Tim Amphulodo, a safety officer in Magyondanao Del Sur, said that the bodies of the four people were retrieved from the debris in the town of Ambanan.

American forces were deployed in a military camp in the Philippines in the south of the country for decades to help provide training and advice to the Philippine forces fighting Muslim militants. The region is home to Muslim minorities in the Roman Catholic nation.

Windy Beaty, responsible for disaster relief in the provinces, told the Associated Press on Thursday that it had received reports that the residents had seen smoke from the plane and heard an explosion before the plane dropped to the ground about half a mile from a group of agricultural homes.

The officials said that Durham was trained as an electronic analyst for the intelligence/electromagnetic war for the first radio battalion, the marine motor power group. He joined the Marines in January 2021 and was promoted to his current rank on February 1.

Officials said that Durham Prizes include the medal of praise in the Navy and Navy, the Marine Corps Medal, the National Defense Service Medal, Sari Jadara, and a naval blasphemy.

The Lieutenant Colonel Mabel B. Anounuzata, the commander of the first radio battalion in the statement, “The Sergeant. “He was deeply respected and his colleagues loved him from the Marine.”