jensenmike Mike Jensen, the lone survivor of a March 16 private plane crash at the Long Beach Airport that killed the five other passengers, is breathing on his own and speaking, according to a website established by his family to provide updates on his recovery.

“Super Mule is great, the [breathing] tube is out and of course he started talking immediately!” read today’s post. “Due to the residual sedation medications in his system, he’s groggy and was speaking gibberish right away—a cross between Swahili and Dutch—and he said, ‘I’m in the hospital.’ When nurse Tracy cleaned his mouth out he said, ‘Super nice.’ What a difference. He’s much more comfortable and is visibly happier.”

Jensen, president of Pacific Retail Partners and a board member of the Aquarium of the Pacific,was among five high-profile Greater Long Beach businessmen—all in some way associated with land acquisition, development and management—who on March 16 set out on a ski vacation to Park City, Utah, aboard a plane owned by one of them, Tom Dean.

But trouble intervened almost immediately after they left the ground. Investigators are still trying to find out why the plane suddenly turned sharply left toward the west, then dived into the airfield, where it burst into flames.

Rescuers pulled Jensen from the wreckage, but the impact and fire killed the other businessmen—Mark Bixby, 44; Tom Dean, 50; Jeff Berger, 49; and Bruce Krall, 51—as well as the plane’s pilot, Ken Cruz, 43.