Fuck flying with this family member fatality magnet.

Michigan basketball recruit survives 2nd plane crash

A 16-year-old high school basketball player with the promise of playing at the University of Michigan is fighting for his life after surviving his second plane crash.

Austin Hatch, of Fort Wayne, Indiana, 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.

Austin had committed earlier this month to play basketball at Michigan, where his father and mother went to school.

Dan Kline, the basketball coach at Canterbury School in Fort Wayne, Indiana, told The Associated Press that the next 24 to 48 hours are going to be critical. He said Austin is physically and mentally strong -- someone "who can handle things."

"He's a very mature young man," he said. "You'd never know he was 16 years old."

Austin 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 scholarship to enroll in 2013.

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