Swift Air flight WQ-2228 made an emergency landing in Tulsa, Oklahoma, on December 8th.

The Boeing 737-400 plane heading from Long Beach, California, to Raleigh–Durham International Airport, North Carolina, was diverted due to a cargo smoke indication.

The plane landed safely. All passengers and crew members remained unharmed.

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The Boeing 737-700 plane heading from Dallas, Texas, to Kansas City, Missouri, was diverted due to an issue with the fuel system.

The plane landed safely. All one hundred and forty-two people aboard remained unharmed.

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The plane heading from Portland, Oregon, to Atlanta, Georgia, was diverted due to an unruly passenger.

The plane landed safely.

The unruly passenger was removed from the plane and was detained for questioning.

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The Airbus A320-200 plane heading from San Diego, California, to Tulsa, Oklahoma, was diverted after a number of passengers reported feeling unwell due to an unidentified odor on-board.

The plane landed safely. Seventeen passengers were examined by the medical teams at the airport while one passenger was taken to a hospital.

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The plane heading from Omaha, Nebraska, to Houston, Texas, was diverted due to a pressurization problem.

The plane landed safely. All passengers and crew members remained unharmed.

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The Airbus A320-200 plane heading from Tulsa, Oklahoma, to San Diego, California, was diverted after an unidentified odor was noticed in the aft cabin.

The plane landed safely. All one hundred and twenty-nine passengers and six crew members remained unharmed.

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The incident happened near Bear River when the plane was transporting two people from Tulsa, Oklahoma.

Both occupants were killed in the crash.

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The Boeing 737-800 plane was flying from Tulsa, Oklahoma, when the crew noticed an odor in the cockpit.

The plane continued for a safe landing. All one hundred and fifty-eight passengers and six crew members remained unharmed.

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The Boeing 737-700 plane heading from Tulsa, Oklahoma, to Las Vegas, Nevada, was diverted after the crew received indication of smoke in a lavatory.

The plane landed uneventfully. All passengers and crew members remained safe.

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The Canadair CRJ-900 plane was accelerating to takeoff for Tulsa, Oklahoma, when the crew reported a blown tire and rejected takeoff.

The plane was disabled on the runway and had to be towed off.

Everyone aboard remained safe.

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The plane heading from Denver, Colorado, to Tampa, Florida, was diverted after the crew needed to shut down one of the engines.

The plane landed safely. All passengers and crew members remained unharmed.

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The McDonnell Douglas- 88 was accelerating to takeoff for Tulsa, Oklahoma, when the tower informed the crew that they had burst a tyre.

The plane returned to the taxiway for inspection.

It was later reported that the aircraft had also ingested tyre debris into its engine.

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The plane took off for Houston, Texas, but had to return shortly afterwards after smoke was detected in the cockpit.

The plane landed uneventfully. There were 51 people aboard at the time; all of them remained unharmed.

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The plane, flying from George Bush Intercontinental Airport, Texas, declared an emergency after smoke was detected in the flight deck.

The plane landed uneventfully. All 51 passengers aboard remained unharmed.

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The plane was one of the two returning from a training session at Mountain Home Air Force Base, Idaho, to Seymour Johnson Air Force Base, North Carolina. Authorities said the pilot decided to divert due to a “minor system malfunction.”

The plane landed uneventfully. No injuries were reported.

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The charter plane, carrying University of Tulsa’s men’s basketball team, had to turn back after one of the engines stopped working. The team was heading to Philadelphia for a Thursday game at Temple University.

The plane landed safely. All 37 people aboard remained unhurt.

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The plane, heading from Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport to Cedar Rapids, Iowa, had to be diverted after the pilot reported fumes in the cockpit.

The plane landed uneventfully at around 6:15 p.m. and was immediately evacuated. None of the 63 passengers and 4 crew members was harmed.

The cause of fumes is being investigated.

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The Airbus A321 had to be diverted after the crew reported issues with bathrooms. The flight was heading from New York to Los Angeles at the time.

The plane, carrying 79 passengers and 8 crew members, landed uneventfully.

An airline spokesperson said the company refueled the aircraft and serviced the bathrooms.

The flight again departed at around 3:45 p.m.

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The flight was on its way from Hartford, Connecticut to Dallas, Texas, when a passenger became sick midair. The plane was then diverted to Tulsa where fire and HAZMAT response teams were put on alert. According to Bennie E. Herring, Tulsa Fire Department battalion chief, “We had a conversation, we believe, between the pilots and the tower, and somewhere in that conversation the word Ebola was said, or Ebola like symptoms.”

The plane landed safely. The emergency crews asked the passengers to wait while they ruled out Ebola and determined that the passenger’s illness was due to complications from a previous surgery.

The flight later resumed its journey.

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The incident happened when the 18-year-old certified Pilot, Eric Nichols and his pilot-in-training friend Tanner Price were flying from Riverside Airport and performing a touch and go at Tulsa International Airport.

According to Nichols, the plane had just passed the runway when its speed indicator dropped to zero. ‘We had about 1,900 RPMs and I knew that wasn’t going to be enough to get us anywhere, so we didn’t have enough runway, I told tower, ‘I’m putting it down,’ and I set it down on the road here,’ said Nichols.

The teenagers carefully landed the plane between two utility poles and avoided hitting a car running on the road. Tulsa Fire Airport Chief, Michael Atchison was impressed with the boys’ performance in such life-threatening situation. “Real proud of those guys…They did a good job ’cause, you know, the tense moments right there, for them to lay it down, find a place to land it when they lost all the power. They did a great job,” Atchison said.

Nichols has only 61 hours of training while Tanner has just 13. Christensen Aviation, the owner of the plane, confirmed that neither the plane was damaged nor anyone was injured.

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The Boeing 767 was at the airbase for routine service. The pilot took a test flight but immediately declared emergency, returned to the base, and landed safely.

According to airport spokeswoman Alexis Higgins, the decision for emergency landing was made after the pilot reported a flight control problem.

Only four crew and technical staff members were aboard the jet at the time of emergency landing; all of them exited safely.

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The incident happened while the plane was taking off from Tulsa.  The pilot immediately returned the plane back for check-up.

These kind of incidents are quiet common in Tulsa, The airplanes usually get hit by birds and sometimes by skunks and other mammals. Alexis Higgins of FAA says that they are seeking help from biologists to remove these birds from the airport.

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The flight 1491 took off at around 10:30 am on Friday March 14, 2014, carrying 182 passengers and 7 crew members. Shortly after departing, it hit a bird and had to land back at the Tulsa International Airport.

All passengers and crew members were safely de-planed.

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