A light plane contracted by the US military crashed yesterday afternoon in Barangay Malatimon in Ampatuan town, Maguindanao del Sur, leaving four people dead. Barangay officials separately confirmed that two of the fatalities are Caucasians.

The Civil Aviation Authority of the Philippines (CAAP) announced that it has begun investigating the crash of a US military-contracted aircraft in

A small plane contracted by the US Defence Department crashed in the southern Philippines on Thursday, killing all four people on board, including one US service member, the US Indo-Pacific Command said.