Our daughter chose to go up and fly in an airplane.

She was always just driven to be perfect.

My dad pulled up.

Yeah.

Said Mackenzie's missing.

And you think I am not ready to plan a funeral?

A teenage girl out to earn her pilot's license

sent off on a solo flight.

She was well trained.

She's capable.

But something went wrong.

I started thinking she should be there by now.

Our stretched on without any word, her parents frantic.

They had that eerie feeling.

The kind that you don't entertain as a parent.

Something wasn't right.

Mackenzie had vanished, leaving behind empty skies and a terrible fear.

Had her plane gone down, some of the country's most dangerous terrain.

There's not lions, there's coyotes.

It's not where you'd want to see yourself, let alone a young girl.

A search becomes a race against time.

If it got dark, it would really add to the chance that she would end up dying out there.

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