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That plague, (probably the same one that took out LJeanL recently) came to Kentucky on December 28th and had the courtesy to visit me personally. I was mostly out of commission. Better now, but LJeanL, pass the ginger ale and soda crackers please.

Regarding the questions for the Boychuk family, I received the following email reply from Jon Boychuk. When, in a private message to a fellow searcher about something else, I mentioned that I had received this email and it was suggested I get Jon's okay before posting the message. That was a good idea, so I did and Jon Boychuk replied this evening saying it was okay to do so.



Sent: Saturday, December 29, 2007 8:16 PM
Subject: RE: Details of Ron's flight


Thank you again for all your efforts, I can't possibly tell you how much this means to our family. As per your questions, I will try to get a contact # for you .... also; he took off from Revelstoke at approx. 14:30 Pacific time planning to take the VFR route to Qualicomm. The last visual sighting was at revelstoke heading west towards 3 valley gap however in our efforts to contact people we have two possible witness's in lytton claiming they saw that airplane heading south low level over the fraser river at approx. 17:00-17:30 Pacific. The military was going off a radar hit close to spences bridge takin by a U.S. border patrol Aircraft. We believe that he usually took the VFR route.
I will forward you a contact # ASAP, and again we thank you with all our hearts,
Sincerely,
Jon Boychuk

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I have been looking at this for a while tonight trying to make sense of what Boychuk was seeing and what he was trying to do. I have flown the 172 on numerous cross country flights and it is an easy airplane to fly and navigate in VFR conditions.

The email from Jon only adds to my confusion about this flight. The statement that he was possibly seen flying low level near Lytton over the Fraser river heading south could mean any number of things. Low level in an ambiguous term and could mean anything from 50 ft AGL (above ground level) to 500 ft AGL or something above that.

Heading south at that point runs counter to the theory that he was making a direct flight to his destination because his approximate heading would have to be about 240-250 degrees magnetic, not 180 degrees. Heading south could indicate that he was going to follow highway #1. Would this be the VFR route that Jon is referring ?

When Jon says “the military was going off a radar hit near Spense Bridge,” is this the antecedent to the purported position report over Spense Bridge? “We believe that he usually took the VFR route”. What exactly is the usual VFR route?

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