Oklahoma_State_Cowboys_basketball_team_plane_crash References

Oklahoma State basketball team plane crash
	Beechcraft Super King Air 200 similar to accident aircraft
Accident
Date	January 27, 2001
Summary	Spatial disorientation in snow storm
Site	Strasburg, Colorado, United States; 39°44′48″N 104°15′0″W / 39.74667°N 104.25000°W
Aircraft
Aircraft type	Beechcraft Super King Air 200
Operator	Jet Express Services
Registration	N81PF
Passengers	8
Crew	2
Fatalities	10
Survivors	0

The Oklahoma State University Cowboys basketball team plane crash occurred on January 27, 2001, at 19:37 EST, when a Beechcraft Super King Air 200, registration N81PF, carrying two players on the Oklahoma State Cowboys basketball team along with six Oklahoma State broadcasters and members of the Oklahoma State coaching staff, crashed in a field 40 miles (64 km) east of Denver,^[1] near Strasburg, in the U.S. state of Colorado. The pilot had become disoriented in a snow storm.^[2]^[3] The plane was flying from Jefferson County Airport to Stillwater Regional Airport after the team's loss to the Colorado Buffaloes.

The aircraft was carrying two crew members (pilot Denver Mills, and co-pilot Bjorn Fahlstrom) and eight passengers involved with Oklahoma State basketball. All ten died.^[1] Oklahoma State has a memorial erected to them, entitled "Remember the Ten", inside Gallagher-Iba Arena in Stillwater, Oklahoma.

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^ ^a ^b "ESPN.com - GEN - Investigation continues in Oklahoma State crash". espn.go.com.
^ "Maps and details of plane crashes - PlaneCrashMap.com". www.planecrashmap.com. Archived from the original on June 15, 2012.
^ "In-Flight Electrical System Failure and Loss of Control, Jet Express Services, Raytheon (Beechcraft) Super King Air 200, N81PF, Near Strasburg, Colorado, January 27, 2001" (PDF). National Transportation Safety Board. January 15, 2003. NTSB/AAR-03/01. Retrieved November 19, 2021.

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[espn-1] "ESPN.com - GEN - Investigation continues in Oklahoma State crash". espn.go.com.

[2] "Maps and details of plane crashes - PlaneCrashMap.com". www.planecrashmap.com. Archived from the original on June 15, 2012.

[AAR-03-01_Final_Report-3] "In-Flight Electrical System Failure and Loss of Control, Jet Express Services, Raytheon (Beechcraft) Super King Air 200, N81PF, Near Strasburg, Colorado, January 27, 2001" (PDF). National Transportation Safety Board. January 15, 2003. NTSB/AAR-03/01. Retrieved November 19, 2021.

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v t e Aviation accidents and incidents in the United States and U.S. territories in the 2000s
2000s here means the decade from 2000 to 2009
2000	Alaska Airlines Flight 261 Zion mid-air collision Emery Worldwide Airlines Flight 17 Southwest Airlines Flight 1455 East Coast Aviation Services British Aerospace Jetstream crash Southwest Airlines Flight 1763
2001	Oklahoma State Cowboys basketball team plane crash American Airlines Flight 11 United Airlines Flight 175 American Airlines Flight 77 United Airlines Flight 93 Delta Air Lines Flight 1989 American Airlines Flight 587
2002	Tampa Cessna 172 crash Airtanker crashes America West Airlines Flight 556 FedEx Express Flight 1478
2003	Air Midwest Flight 5481 Colgan Air Flight 9446 FedEx Express Flight 647
2004	Northwest Airlines Flight 327 Air Tahoma Flight 185 Pinnacle Airlines Flight 3701 Corporate Airlines Flight 5966
2005	Logan Airport runway incursion JetBlue Flight 292 Southwest Airlines Flight 1248 Chalk's Ocean Airways Flight 101
2006	FedEx Express Flight 630 Comair Flight 5191 New York City Cirrus SR20 crash Continental Airlines Flight 1883 Mercy Air Bell 412 crash
2007	Blue Angels South Carolina crash San Francisco International Airport runway incursion Phoenix news helicopter collision
2008	Andersen Air Force Base B-2 accident Guam B-52 crash East Coast Jets Flight 81 South Carolina Learjet 60 crash San Diego F/A-18 crash Continental Airlines Flight 1404
2009	US Airways Flight 1549 Colgan Air Flight 3407 Southwest Airlines Flight 2294 Hudson River mid-air collision Northwest Airlines Flight 188 California mid-air collision
This list is incomplete.

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