A U.S. Marine from California has been identified by military officials as one of four people killed when a plane contracted by the U.S. military crashed in a rice field in the southern Philippines.

The U.S. Marine Corps has identified one of the four victims in Thursday's Philippines plane crash as 22-year-old Sgt. Jacob M. Durham of California.

One United States service member and three defense contractors are dead after a small airplane crashed in the Philippines on Thursday, officials said.