Sgt. Jacob M. Durham, 22, died in Thursday's accident during a routine mission while aboard a UC-12W Beechcraft King Air 350 in support of U.S.- Philippine security cooperation activities, according to the United States Indo-Pacific Command.

The Marine who died in a Thursday plane crash in the Philippines was an intelligence and electrotonic warfare specialist assigned to a unit in California, the service announced on Sunday. Sgt. Jacob Durham was one of four people who died following the crash of a Beechcraft King Air 350 in the Philippine province of Maguindanao del Sur,

A Beechcraft 350 King Air operated by US defense contractor Metrea crashed in the Philippines, killing all four onboard, including a US service member.

Sgt. Jacob M. Durham died Thursday in the crash of an aircraft that was conducting a routine mission “providing intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance support at the request of our Philippine allies,

Sgt. Jacob M. Durham had just been promoted to the rank of sergeant. He served with the 1st Radio Battalion at Camp Pendleton.

A US-contracted surveillance plane crashed in the Philippines on Thursday morning, killing all four personnel on board, including one US military service member, according to US Indo-Pacific Command.

Four people are dead after a U.S. military-contracted plane crashed in the Philippines on Thursday, officials said.

A U.S. Marine and and three Pentagon contractors died after an aircraft went down in the Philippines Thursday, officials said.

Four Americans were killed in a plane crash in the southern Philippines. A U.S. service member and three defence contractors were onboard the Beech King Air 350 plane, with body number N349CA, when the aircraft plummeted from the sky and crash-landed into a rice field in Maguindanao del Sur province,