A plane crash critically injured Austin Hatch, a University of Michigan basketball recruit. Hatch's father, who piloted the plane, died in the crash along with the father's wife.

Hatch remained hospitalized Saturday in Traverse City, Mich. Surviving family members posted a note online Friday saying his condition is improving and doctors have begun bringing him out of his coma.

The Canterbury High School junior and his father also survived a 2003 plane crash near Fort Wayne that killed the boy's mother, a sister and a brother.