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Monday marks 24 years since plane crash killed 10 members of OSU basketball family

By Jonathan Greco

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    STILLWATER, Oklahoma (KOCO) — Monday marks 24 years since a plane crash claimed the lives of 10 members of the Oklahoma State University basketball family.

Two crew members, pilot Denver Mills and co-pilot Bjorn Fahlstrom, as well as eight passengers who were members of the Oklahoma State basketball program – Nate Fleming, Dan Lawson, Jared Weiberg, Pat Noyes, Bill Teegins, Will Hancock, Brian Luinstra and Kendall Durfey – were killed in a crash on Jan. 27, 2001.

The plane went down in a field about 40 miles east of Denver as the plane was returning to Stillwater from a game against Colorado.

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