University student Mackenzie Lueck had been on a visit back to her hometown to see family, but it was under sad circumstances.
Mackenzie, 23, had travelled the 700 miles to El Segundo, California, so she could attend her grandmother’s funeral and was now on a flight back to Salt Lake City, Utah, where she attended university.
She was a popular student at the University of Utah, where she was studying pre-nursing and kinesiology, the science of human body movement.
It wasn’t surprising that she was following a future in caring for others, as Mackenzie was nurturing and compassionate. She was sporty, too – playing water polo at high school and competing on the swim team.
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