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.

Sgt. Jacob M. Durham, 22, of Long Beach, was killed along with three military contractors in Thursday's crash of a UC-12W Beechcraft King Air 350.

Sgt. Jacob M. Durham, a Long Beach, California native, was the Marine who died in a surveillance plane crash in the Philippines, the U.S. Marine Corps announced. Everyone on the plane – Durham and three defense contractors – was killed during the crash Thursday in a rice field in the Maguindanao