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Michigan Basketball Honors Plane Crash Survivor Austin Hatch on Senior Day

The Michigan Wolverines honored Austin Hatch, who survived a plane crash in 2011 that left him in a monthslong coma, before Sunday's basketball game against Ohio State.

Daniel Murphy of ESPN.com reported the news, noting Hatch was one of the seniors honored on senior day, which marked the Wolverines' final home game of the season.

According to Murphy, Hatch's father and stepmother died in the crash. His mother and siblings had died in a separate plane crash eight years prior. Hatch survived the first crash "when his father threw him from the wreckage," per Murphy.