Eddie Sutton responds to plane crash that killed OSU coaches Budke and Serna
File photo of then Oklahoma State men's head basketball head coach Eddie Sutton.
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Posted: 11/18/2011
TULSA, Okla. (AP) -- Former Oklahoma State University men's basketball coach Eddie Sutton says the plane crash in Arkansas that killed two OSU women's coaches brings back painful memories.
Sutton was head coach when 10 men associated with the men's team died in a January 2001 plane crash in Colorado while returning from a game.
OSU women's coach Kurt Budke, assistant Miranda Serna, former state Sen. Olin Branstetter and his wife Paula Branstetter died Thursday when their plane crashed near Perryville, Ark., as they flew to Little Rock -- about 45 miles away.
Sutton said Friday there isn't a day that goes by that he doesn't remember the 2001 crash and that Thursday's crash makes it worse.
The National Transportation Safety Board says it could take months to determine the cause of Thursday's crash.
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