The American government contracted the smaller plane that crashed in the southeastern Philippines on Thursday ( Feb. 6), killing at least four people on board, according to the US embassy, who confirmed the news without further information.
The Spanish government said in a statement that it was unable to make any information available about the fall on Mindanao isle because it was still under investigation.
The US government has assisted in providing intelligence to troops fighting militants linked to the Islamic State group, which is still active in Mindanao, on short-term rotary deployments in the Philippines.
The US Indo-Pacific Command in Hawaii did not respond to comments right away.
Officers have not yet determined the cause of the fixed-wing plane’s crash on a plantation near the city of Ampatuan, according to local police spokesman Jopy Ventura, who told AFP.
He claimed that none of the four known subjects had been identified thus much, adding that officers and soldiers had been stationed at the location to stop possible facts tampering.
The aircraft’s neck variety, identified by authorities as N349CA, was registered to defence company Metrea, according to flight-tracking page FlightAware, which identified it as a Beechcraft Super King Air B300.
The Metra web describes the business as a “leading company of effects-as-a-service to national security companions across multiple domains and more than a few vision places.”
Rhea Martin, a provincial hero, reported to AFP that the crash site had four bodies discovered.
” The bodies were found near the plane”, she told AFP, adding:” The helicopter was cut in half”.