The jet had gone missing a day earlier while on a mission to provide air support for troops fighting communist rebels in northern Mindanao.
“The bodies were found inside the aircraft. There was an attempt to open a parachute and eject,“ he said.
Lieutenant Colonel Francisco Garello of the 4th Infantry Division told AFP the wreckage of the missing fighter jet was found on Mount Kalatungan.
Bergante said bringing the servicemen's remains down the mountainside was now the top priority.
Dangerous terrain
He said Tuesday that his division had called in air support during a firefight with the New People's Army, a long-running Maoist insurgency now believed to have fewer than 2,000 fighters.
Air force spokeswoman Colonel Consuelo Castillo told reporters it was the “first major incident involving” its squadron of FA-50s, which have been used in exercises over the disputed South China Sea.
The fighters have participated in joint air patrols with treaty ally the United States over contested areas of the South China Sea, where China and the Philippines have been involved in increasingly tense confrontations.
There have been a number of deadly crashes involving Philippine military aircraft in recent years.
Two PAF pilots were killed in January 2023 when their Marchetti SF260 turboprop plane crashed into a rice field.
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