Monument planned to honor OSU Basketball plane crash victims - Byers, CO - News Article Locations on Waymarking.com

The family farm which was the location of this plane crash, is owned by a family whose grandson works at the same news station where victim and sportscaster Bill Teegins worked before he died in the plane crash.

This is a beautiful monument honoring the ten victims: two OSU basketball players, two pilots, two sports broadcasters, and four university officials.

Text from George Lane's article in the Denver Post:

As plans were being made to erect a memorial near Byers for those killed in Saturday's crash of an Oklahoma State University charter plane, pieces of the wreckage were taken to a Greeley business that recovers and stores planes for federal investigators.

Investigators are piecing together the Beechcraft King Air 200 in a twodimensional outline on the floor of Beegles Aircraft Service hangar at the GreeleyWeld County Airport.

National Transportation Safety Board officials said the search for clues to the cause of the accident is a painstaking process that can take months.

Saturday night's crash killed 10 people, including two Oklahoma State basketball players, two broadcasters, four university officials and two pilots. It was one of three small planes leaving Colorado after OSU's basketball game against the University of Colorado at Boulder.

The other two planes returned to Stillwater, Okla., safely.

The crash occurred a few miles from Byers in a pasture of a family farm owned by the Haerther-Losh family.

Daryl Haerther said the family received a telephone call Tuesday from OSU associate vice president David Bosserman, who asked to come to the farm to talk about the possibility of a monument.

"They had actually called me from the coroner's office in Brighton," Haerther recalled. "Their task here was to help identify the bodies."

The school asked "if a memorial could be placed somewhere near the site," but not in the field where it wouldn't be seen.

"They came out, and we looked at a place alongside of the county road that is maybe a thousand feet from the site," he said. "This would be off the county rightof-way, inside our fenceline, open to the front. ...We're very acceptable to that." Daryl and Bette Haerther are the parents of Susan and Lonnie Losh who are the parents of Jeff Losh who works at KWTV television in Oklahoma City. That is the same station that employed OSU broadcaster and crash victim Bill Teegins.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

Type of publication: Newspaper When was the article reported?: 02/02/2001 Publication: The Denver Post Article Url: [Web Link] Is Registration Required?: no How widespread was the article reported?: national News Category: Sports

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