Oklahoma State University holds memorial for plane crash victims

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STILLWATER, OK (CBS) -- Oklahoma State students, faculty and staff are gathering to remember four people including two women's basketball coaches killed in an airplane crash in central Arkansas.

A memorial service was held Monday afternoon at Gallagher-Iba Arena on the Stillwater campus for head basketball coach Kurt Budke, assistant coach Miranda Serna, alumnus Olin Branstetter and his wife, Paula.

Branstetter was piloting the single-engine plane when it crashed Thursday afternoon near Perryville. The flight was en route to Little Rock, where Budke and Serna were going to watch prospective recruits play at a game.

Their deaths come 10 years after a plane crash that killed 10 people associated with the men's basketball program.

OSU spokesman Gary Shutt says school officials will take another look at the travel policy.