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Mike Hendricks

Mike at Night

Mike Hendricks recently retires as social science, criminal justice instructor at McCook Community College.

A couple of things

Friday, July 1, 2011

A story that borders on being unbelievable occurred last week involving a plane crash that critically injured a University of Michigan basketball recruit. According to the Associated Press, Austin Hatch, a 16 year old junior at Canterbury High School in Fort Wane, Indiana, suffered his injuries in a plane flown by his father, Dr. Stephen Hatch. Dr. Hatch and his wife Kim, Austin's stepmother, were both killed in the crash. That part of the story is bad enough but it is compounded by the fact that this was the second plane crash Dr. Hatch and his son have been in. The first one, in 2003, killed Austin's mother and his two siblings. The fact that a teenager could be in two plane crashes before his 17th birthday that cumulatively wiped out his entire family is almost more than the mind can process.

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