Pilot of downed plane was active Baptist

Pilot of downed plane was active Baptist

OKLAHOMA CITY — The pilot of a plane that crashed Jan. 27, with team members and support staff of the Oklahoma State basketball team onboard was an active Baptist.

Denver Mills, 55, was piloting a Beechcraft Super King Air 200 when it crashed, killing him and nine other members of an Oklahoma State University entourage who had attended the Cowboys’ basketball game at the University of Colorado earlier in the day.  Mills was a member of Council Road Baptist Church in Oklahoma City.

Among those who also died were players Daniel Lawson and Nate Fleming; play-by-play voice Bill Teegins; associate sports information director Will Hancock; OSU administrative assistant Pat Noyes; student manager Mick Weiberg; OSU radio producer Kendall Carlton Durfey; athletic trainer Brian Luinstra; and copilot  Bjorn Fahlstrom.