AUSTIN HATCH – Basketball star on fullride scholarship – critically injured Friday in a plane crash that killed his dad and step mom. First crash killed his mom and 2 siblings. <\/p>\n
I read this horrible story in the paper today. This poor 16 year old kid lost the rest of his family in a 2nd plane crash that previously killed half of his family. I can’t imagine how he will go on living….if he even survives. Why would the Lord do this to the poor kid? Sometimes I just don’t understand things when they are just so awful. <\/p>\n
Austin Hatch was a standout high school basketball player in Indiana \u2013 on his way to college on a full scholarship \u2013 when the unthinkable happened. <\/p>\n
AUSTIN HATCH – Basketball star on fullride scholarship – critically injured Friday in a plane crash that killed his dad and step mom. First crash killed his mom and 2 siblings. <\/p>\n
“Hatch, 16, was critically injured in a plane crash on Friday that killed his father, Dr. Stephen Hatch, and his stepmother, Kim. Even more unfathomable? It’s happened to him before. In 2003, Hatch and his father survived a plane crash that took the lives of his mother and two siblings. He is now the sole survivor of his immediate family. <\/p>\n
“They’re all gone,” Dan Kline, Hatch’s basketball coach at Canterbury High School told the Associated Press. “He’s the only one left. What’s the chance of that happening? A million to one, if that. It’s just unbelievable.” Austin, who remains in critical condition at a northern Michigan hospital, is in a medically induced coma, suffering bruising on his brain among other injuries. Close friends of the teen have been keeping a vigil at the hospital.” <\/p>\n
Taken from the Associated Press. <\/p>\n
I’m just so sad for this poor kid. Why do these horrific things happen? I have a few questions for the Lord when I meet him at the pearly gates. It is unfathomable to me that he will be able to have a normal life after this. I’m thinking his basketball scholarship is probably toast if he is really brain injured. It is such a sad story. Hug your family today. You never know what will happen in a split second to change the family dynamics.<\/p>\n
It is awful to lose a loved one. Unthinkable to lose the whole family….a second time. I reminds me of the ending to the movie Super 8 when the closing line is “Bad Things Happen….But You Can Still Live!” It’s gonna be so hard for this kid to be normal….to live a normal life…. all my well wishes and love go out to him……May God bless you Austin….<\/p>\n
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I read this horrible story in the paper today. This poor 16 year old kid lost the rest of his family in a 2nd plane crash that previously killed half of his family. I can’t imagine how he will go on living….if he even survives. Why would the Lord do this to the poor kid?…<\/p>\n