KETCHIKAN \u2014 The only survivor of a floatplane crash in Southeast Alaska that killed three Wrangell men remains in recovery at a Colorado hospital.<\/p>\n
Morgan Enright was left in critical condition after suffering extensive injuries in the April 8 crash on Admiralty Island, The Ketchikan Daily News reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n The Ketchikan resident, who was 21 at the time of the crash, had received treatment at a Seattle hospital before becoming a patient at Craig Hospital in Colorado, which specializes in neuro-rehabilitation and research for people with spinal cord and brain injuries.<\/p>\n Enright, the daughter of Loren Enright and Chere Klein, has been documenting her recovery in an online journal her family has been keeping since the incident.<\/p>\n \u201cWe successfully arrived in Denver on a beautiful flight with an awesome (emergency medical technician) crew,\u201d Klein wrote on May 12. \u201cMorgan has had a very busy afternoon meeting her new specialized team members. She is now off all eating and drinking restrictions and immediately drank a quart of water.\u201d<\/p>\n A May 14 journal entry said Enright \u201cgot her first shower and also first breath of fresh Colorado air.\u201d Klein also said Enright would be in a wheelchair until her right ankle and leg are healed.<\/p>\n The latest entry posted Wednesday says Enright is continuing with physical, occupational and speech therapy every day.<\/p>\n Enright had been aboard a Cessna 206 piloted by David Galla, 60, when the plane went down about 20 miles southeast of the village of Angoon, on Admiralty Island. A preliminary report from the National Transportation Safety Board said Galla had said he was going to take an alternate route due to cloudy weather before the plane crashed.<\/p>\n Galla was killed in the crash along with Greg Scheff, 61, and Thomas Siekawitch, 57.<\/p>\n —<\/p>\n Related stories:<\/p>\n Three confirmed dead, one survivor in Admiralty plane crash<\/a><\/p>\n NTSB is trying to piece together the tragic, fatal Admiralty plane crash<\/a><\/p>\n Preliminary report for Admiralty plan crash indicates weather issues<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" KETCHIKAN \u2014 The only survivor of a floatplane crash in Southeast Alaska that killed three Wrangell men remains in recovery at a Colorado hospital. Morgan Enright was left in critical condition after suffering extensive injuries in the April 8 crash on Admiralty Island, The Ketchikan Daily News<\/a> reported. The Ketchikan resident, who was 21 at […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":107,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_stopmodifiedupdate":false,"_modified_date":"","wds_primary_category":4,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[230],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-14335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-state-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14335","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/107"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14335"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14335\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14335"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=14335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}