Woman Asks Help to Find Relatives Missing for 2 Weeks : Disappearances: Her parents and sister left Utah by plane and never arrived at Camarillo. A reward is offered for information.

Surrounded by pictures of her parents and sister displayed in the living room of their Thousand Oaks home, Kathleen Harrison expressed hope Friday that they are still alive and pleaded for the public’s help in the massive search for their missing plane.

Harrison said she believes the single-engine plane, which has been missing for nearly two weeks after taking off from an airport in Utah, went down in California. She also announced that a family friend had offered a $5,000 reward for information on the whereabouts of the plane.

“We’re confident we’re going to find them,” Harrison said during a news conference. “At this point, we know they’re going to be hurt and we know they may have to go the hospital, but that’s OK.”

The Beechcraft Bonanza carrying K. Reed Harrison, his wife, Judith, and the couple’s youngest daughter, 18-year-old Julie, disappeared July 25 on its way to Camarillo Airport. The plane had taken off from Roosevelt, Utah, where the Harrisons had attended a family reunion.

Reed Harrison, a pilot for 12 years who has made the trip to Roosevelt as many as 50 times, did not file a flight plan before takeoff. And the plane’s emergency transmitter has never gone off, authorities said.

As a result, hundreds of volunteers from the Civil Air Patrol continue to search thousands of square miles of rugged, mountainous terrain in Nevada and Utah as well as the high desert areas of Arizona and California.

“It’s like finding a needle in a haystack because it is such a large area,” Kathleen Harrison said.

The Civil Air Patrol, an auxiliary of the Air Force that conducts search-and-rescue missions across the country, is studying radar data that suggests the plane may have gone down in California.

The “radar tracks” being reviewed were picked up near the California-Nevada border at the time the Harrison plane was scheduled to be flying through, said Capt. Ray Tippo of the Civil Air Patrol. But Tippo cautioned not to put too much stock in the unidentified tracks, or blips that are videotaped off radar screens by the Federal Aviation Administration.

“It’s just the latest piece of information,” he said. “We’re still concentrating on the whole route, and that includes Nevada, Arizona and Utah.”

Harrison, 24, said she and her older sister Christina, 25, were in Las Vegas this week distributing flyers to hikers, campers and others traveling in the desert and mountain areas along Interstate 15 urging them to look for any signs of a downed aircraft.

Harrison said she and her sister chartered a helicopter to scour a wooded area near Las Vegas and took a psychic up in a plane to help in the search.

It is not the first time a psychic has joined in the search. Several psychics from around the country have volunteered their help, Harrison said.

“People have contacted us,” Harrison said. “We have not hired anyone or sought their services. . . . They all say they’re alive.”

Harrison said a friend of her father is offering a $5,000 reward for any information that would help authorities find the plane. She said the man, whom she did not identify, served as her father’s interpreter during his tour in Vietnam.

Harrison said that after the fall of Saigon, her father helped the man and his family move to the United States and find a home and a job in Thousand Oaks.

“He has lived the American dream, and he is a very wealthy businessman,” Harrison said. “He considers us family, and he is willing to do anything to get my mom and dad and my sister home.”

Meanwhile, Tippo said that, in California, 530 Civil Air Patrol personnel and 162 aircraft have been involved in the search. He said 393 search missions had been flown over 12,000 square miles in the past 11 days.

Harrison praised the organization’s efforts and urged anyone who may have information to call the Civil Air Patrol at (800) 978-5900.

“We feel they are doing everything humanly possible to find my mom and dad and my sister,” she said. “When mom and dad get back, they will be on the top of the list of the people to thank.”