A DOD-contracted aircraft flying an intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance mission crashed in the Philippines, killing all four on board, federal officials said.

The aircraft was conducting a routine mission “providing intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance support at the request of our Philippine allies,” US Indo-Pacific Command said.

One United States service member and three defense contractors are dead after a small airplane crashed in the Philippines on Thursday, officials said.

The aircraft was on a mission, providing intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance at the request of US Philippine allies.

The aircraft was conducting a routine mission “providing intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance support at the request of our Philippine allies,” officials said.

Officials say a U.S. military-contracted plane has crashed in a rice field in the southern Philippines, killing all four people on board

Despite recent headlines, U.S. commercial airline travel has become increasingly safe. An American Airlines regional jet collided with a Black Hawk helicopter over the Potomac River, killing 67 people. A private medical jet crashed in Philadelphia, with 7 lives lost.