A University of Michigan basketball recruit, who was involved in a plane crash that killed his father and stepmother, will be brought out of a medically induced coma, the Detroit Free Press reported Sunday.
Austin Hatch, a junior at Canterbury High School in Fort Wayne, Ind., was in the single-engine aircraft with his father, Dr. Stephen Hatch, and stepmother, Kim, when it crashed in Charlevoix, Mich., Friday.
The accident left the sole-surviving 16-year-old basketball star in critical condition and doctors placed him in a coma.
"Everything's kind of the same," Hatch's high school coach Dan Kline told the Free Press. "Today's an important day. This is the 48-hour range and they're trying to keep the [brain] stimulation down to see if the swelling goes down.
"The plan right now is to bring him out of the medicine [Monday]."
Friday's accident was the second fatal plane crash for the Hatch family -- Austin and his father survived a crash in 2003 that killed his mother and two siblings.
The plane went down at about 7:45pm local time, smashing into a garage on a residential street near Charlevoix Airport in northern Michigan.
The Federal Aviation Administration and National Transportation Safety Board are investigating the crash.
Hatch, a 6-foot-6 forward, who averaged 23 points and nine rebounds last season as a sophomore, made a verbal commitment to join the Wolverines' 2013 recruiting class less than two weeks ago.
