JACOBABAD, Jan 1: An unmanned surveillance plane of the United States crashed in the rice fields of the Juma Khan village, near Saddar police station, here on Wednesday.

According to eyewitness, the plane was seen circling over the Shahbaz Air Base — Pakistan’s third largest airbase — before crashing into the rice fields.

Officials said the plane, which was on a routine surveillance mission, crashed because of a technical fault.

Army and rangers personnel rushed to the scene of the crash after being informed by US officials based at the air base and collected the wreckage of the plane.

The debris of the plane were brought back to the air base in a tractor trolley.