St. Clair Leacock, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of National Security, announced an important development about the disappearance of a Dominican Republic-registered plane that went missing while headed to Tobago. In a live radio address, Minister Leacock confirmed that the missing plane had been located by both international, regional and national agencies; however, there were no fatalities.
Since the disappearance, Minister Leacock said he has maintained constant communication with his police commissioner, along with other regional security entities such as the Regional Security System (RSS), and Caricom IMPACS. Although Minister Leacock mentioned that he knows some of the names of those associated with the missing plane, he would say very little else. “I’m being careful,” Leacock cautioned, saying that he did not want to provide too many details concerning this security issue. “This is a sensitive security issue,” he said.
Minister Leacock also emphasized how intelligence and security agencies are closely monitoring the situation. According to him, what is most important for authorities is identifying “the individuals” flying on the plane, rather than finding out why the plane flew into a body of water. “It’s not so much the aircraft,” he continued, “it’s the people that operate these types of aircraft.” The aircraft at the center of this investigation is a twin engine Beechcraft Baron registered in the Dominican Republic, identified as a B58T or 58P Pressurized Baron, with registration number HI-1145.
On June 15, 2026 the Ministry of Tourism, Civil Aviation and Sustainable Development released a formal statement. In their report, they indicated that the plane took off from Argyle International Airport in St. Vincent at 11:52 AM (local time) on Friday, June 12, 2026. There were two passengers aboard.
The flight was supposed to be approximately one hour and five minutes long, arriving at A.N.R. Robinson International Airport in Tobago. Initial reports indicate that there were no problems with the flight until the aircraft transferred control to Grenada air traffic control at 40 nautical miles south of Argyle airport – marking the end of St. Vincent and the Grenadines’ controlled airspace. At this point in time all attempts to communicate with the aircraft via radio ended; and when the plane failed to arrive in Tobago, authorities began searching for the plane.
Initially, the flight was tracked by the flight tracking service called Flightradar24. This service shows that prior to losing contact with the aircraft, it was flying using visual flight rules (VFR) at an altitude of 4025 ft., and traveling at a speed of 142 kts.
When it suddenly stopped reporting in mid-air to Flightradar24 over the Southern Caribbean Sea; authorities believe that the last known location of the aircraft would have placed it somewhere near Grenadian or Venezuelan territorial waters.
As recent history will show us, prior to its disappearance; flight records indicate that HI-1145 had operated normally completing several trips between Canouan and mainland St. Vincent on June 10th and 12th. Unfortunately, this loss represents a disturbing trend. It is now the second plane to go missing after passing through the Canouan/St. Vincent flight corridor since December 2023.