A multi-nation search operation is ongoing across the southern Caribbean after a small twin-engine aircraft disappeared mid-flight Friday while traveling from St. Vincent to Tobago. The missing plane, a Beech 58P Pressurized Baron registered in the Dominican Republic under registration number HI-1145, departed Argyle International Airport in St. Vincent at 11:52 a.m. local time, with its final destination set as ANR Robinson International Airport on the island of Tobago.
Contact with the aircraft was unexpectedly lost while it was traveling along its planned route, triggering an immediate alert across regional aviation agencies that quickly mobilized search assets to locate the vanished plane. Data collected from popular flight tracking service Flightradar24 reveals that the aircraft was operating under visual flight rules (VFR) in the moments before its signal cut out, cruising at an altitude of roughly 4,025 feet with a ground speed of approximately 142 knots. The plane’s last recorded position placed it over open waters in the southern Caribbean, close to the territorial boundaries of either Grenada or Venezuela.
To date, officials have not released key details about the flight, including how many people were on board when it disappeared, nor have they shared the identities of the pilot and any passengers. The Beech 58P Baron is a light utility aircraft that is typically configured to carry one pilot plus between four and five passengers. As of Sunday, authorities had not confirmed that the plane crashed, and no debris or wreckage had been recovered by search teams.
According to preliminary accounts of the incident, air traffic controllers at Argyle International Airport first notified Piarco Air Traffic Control, based in Trinidad, after communication with the aircraft was lost. A representative from Piarco later confirmed to local media outlets that aviation agencies across the region are fully engaged in active search operations for the missing aircraft.
Flight records show the plane had been operating without any reported mechanical issues in the days leading up to its disappearance. It completed multiple short flights between the island of Canouan and mainland St. Vincent on June 10 and June 12 with no incidents reported, and it had regularly operated scheduled and charter flights between Grenada and Trinidad in recent months.
Notably, this disappearance marks the second unresolved vanishing of an aircraft operating along the Canouan-St. Vincent route in less than a year. Another small plane went missing after operating in this same region in December 2023, and that case remains open with no wreckage or answers found to date.
As of Sunday, search-and-rescue teams from civil aviation agencies in St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Trinidad and Tobago, and several neighboring Caribbean territories continued scanning the waters of the southern Caribbean for any trace of HI-1145, with operations expected to continue pending new developments.