US Marine, Contractors Die in Philippines Plane Crash: What We Know. Published Feb 06, 2025 at 1:08 PM EST Updated Feb 06, 2025 at 5:51 PM EST. By .

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.

In this photo released by the Joint Task Force - Sulu, parts of a Lockheed C-130 Hercules plane are seen at the crash site in Patikul town, Sulu province, southern Philippines, July 4, 2021.

MANILA, Philippines — One U.S. Marine and three defense contractors were killed Thursday when a plane contracted by the U.S. military crashed in a rice field in the southern Philippines, U.S ...

It added the Armed Forces of the Philippines had announced 51 had been killed when the C-130 Hercules plane crashed near Patikul village, in the Sulu region, at around 11:30 a.m. on Sunday. Read more ...

A “deeply respected” U.S. Marine from California who was killed in the military contractor plane crash in the Philippines was identified Sunday as Sgt. Jacob M. Durham.

The Civil Aviation Authority of the Philippines (CAAP) on Monday announced it has extended the preventive suspension of ...

MANILA, Philippines — 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 Philippines ...

At least 49 soldiers were rescued from the wreckage of the crash in southern Sulu province. The Lockheed C-130 Hercules was one of two ex-U.S. Air Force aircraft given to the Philippines this year.

Wreckage of airplane in a rice field in Maguindanao del Sur province, Philippines, after officials say a U.S. military-contracted plane has crashed in a rice field in the southern Philippines ...

A US service member and three defense contractors were killed Thursday when their plane crashed in the Philippines, officials said. The aircraft, which was contracted by the US military, had been ...