The day I pilot a plane and kill two children and my wife is the same day I give up being a pilot. Good God.
DETROIT (AP) -- A standout Indiana high school basketball player with the promise of playing at the University of Michigan is fighting for his life after surviving the second plane crash of his young life.
Austin Hatch, 16, of Fort Wayne, Ind., was in critical condition Saturday in a northern Michigan hospital after the Friday evening crash that killed his father, Dr. Stephen Hatch, and his stepmother, Kim. Austin and his pilot father had survived a 2003 crash that killed Austin's mother and two siblings.
The teen was "the apple of his dad's eye," and Stephen Hatch took great delight and pride in his son's athletic accomplishments, Dr. G. David Bojrab, a colleague and close friend of the father's, told The Associated Press.
Austin, a junior at Canterbury School in Fort Wayne, Ind., committed earlier this month to play basketball at Michigan, where his father and mother went to school.
He told the Journal Gazette of Fort Wayne for a story published last week that he talked to Michigan coach John Beilein by phone and accepted a full-ride scholarship. It was the first day that NCAA coaches could call recruits for the 2013 class, the newspaper said.
"It was a very special moment for me," Hatch told the newspaper. "There was no reason to wait. There's nothing I don't like about their program, and I couldn't turn it down."
He's pretty good a top 100 guy on a few sites, a perfect fit for the Beilein system and I was fairly excited about him.. It's obvious his Dad was a shitty pilot though, I think it was really irresponsible of him to take his replacement wife and son up in a plane again after killing 60% of his family in the last plane crash..
If you don't want to hang it up after wiping out your family, then fine, but don't put your lone surviving kid and your replacement family at risk too..
As far as Austin is concerned I doubt even if he survives that he'll ever end up playing, he has a fractured skull and brain swelling so they induced coma, that is not a good sign.. Not a doctor but from what I hear 75% of the time they either don't make it or live but are basically brain dead.. If he does recover (and I would never count out a guy who has survived TWO plane crashes) then I suppose there is a chance because although he broke some bones none of them were broken to the point where they would need to be replaced or even get screws or whatever..
Either way it's an effing terrible tragedy, best case scenario is the kid pulls through and his entire family (including replacement family #1) is dead..
