An aircraft contracted by the Department of Defense (DOD) crashed in the southern Philippine province of Maguindanao del Sur on Thursday, killing an American service member and three defense contractors.

https://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2025/02/07/u-s-military-surveillance-flight-crashes-philippines-four-killed/

>>22536672

Fox News quoted local officials who said residents of the area saw smoke coming from the plane and heard an explosion before it nose-dived into the ground only half a mile from a “cluster of farmhouses.”