Officials say a U.S. military-contracted plane has crashed in a rice field in the southern Philippines, killing all four people on board. The Civil Aviation Authority of the Philippines confirmed the crash of a light plane in Maguindanao del Sur province. It did not immediately provide other details. The plane that crashed in the southern province was contracted by the U.S. military, U.S. Embassy spokesperson Kanishka Gangopadhyay told The Associated Press. A safety official said the bodies of four people who appeared to be foreign nationals were retrieved from the wreckage.
