Coast Guard searches for missing plane

TRINIDAD and Tobago and Barbados Coast Guard aircraft, as well as Coast Guard vessels from St Lucia, Barbados and the Royal Navy were up to late yesterday searching for a Piper Navajo Light Aircraft which ditched into the sea approximately 52 miles south west of Barbados.

The incident took place around 6.55 pm Sunday, and the Trinidad and Tobago Coast Guard said they received a report from the United States Coast Guard in San Juan, Puerto Rico. There were two people on board the aircraft which had departed from Canouan in the Grenadines and was enroute to Barbados. At 4.45 pm Sunday, the pilot reported engine problems to Air Traffic Control in Barbados.