Marine Corps identifies Long Beach native killed in airplane crash in the Philippines

Published February 11, 2025 11:26am ET



(The Center Square) – 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 del Sur province, according to the U.S. Indo-Pacific Command. 

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