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.

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 US service member killed in a surveillance flight plane crash in the Philippines last week alongside three defense contractors was identified as a young Marine from California who had been promoted just five days before his tragic death.