“The aircraft was providing intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance support at the request of our Philippine allies,“ the Indo-Pacific Command said in a statement about the crash on Mindanao island.
The US military said one service member and three defence contractors were killed in the incident. They were not immediately identified pending notification of their families.
Small numbers of American troops are put on short-term rotational deployments in the Philippines, where the US military has helped provide intelligence to troops battling militants linked to the Islamic State group that remain active on Mindanao.
Regional police spokesman Jopy Ventura told AFP that officers had not yet determined the cause of the fixed-wing aircraft's crash on a farm near the municipality of Ampatuan.
The plane's tail number, identified by police as N349CA, was registered to defence firm Metrea, according to flight-tracking site FlightAware, which identified it as a Beechcraft Super King Air B300.
Municipal rescuer Rhea Martin told AFP her team had found four dead bodies at the crash site.
“The bodies were found near the plane,“ she told AFP, adding: “The plane was cut in half.”
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