Tulsa International Airport safety profile
32 recorded occurrences at or near Tulsa International Airport (1988–2025): 17 at the airport, 15 nearby; 4 fatal, 10 fatalities.
What happens most
Runway incursions
The FAA Runway Safety database records 78 runway incursions at this airport. Full runway incursion history.
Notable investigated occurrences
- 2009-09-05 (5 fatalities) — 0.2 km
- 2010-07-11 — Chase R. Bales (3 fatalities) — 2.3 km
- 2021-09-06 — Monnett Moni (1 fatalities) — 0.2 km
- 2008-01-17 — Aero Commander 500-B, Central Air Southwest, Inc. (1 fatalities) — 3.2 km
- 2025-05-30 — M&A ADAMS FAMILY LP — 0.2 km
- 2024-08-03 — CIRRUS 23 LLC — 0.2 km
- 2024-02-23 — 0.2 km
- 2022-06-08 — FedEx Express — 0.2 km
- 2021-05-13 — 0.2 km
- 2021-02-25 — Air Methods Corporation — 0.2 km
- 2019-09-02 — 0.2 km
- 2019-06-22 — Christiansen Aviation Inc — 0.2 km
Runways
- 18L/36R: 10,000 ft, CON, lighted
- 08/26: 7,376 ft, CON, lighted
- 18R/36L: 6,101 ft, ASP, lighted
Weather patterns
- Fog: 25.497 days/year
- Thunderstorms: 59.992 days/year
- Snow: 11.098 days/year
- Crosswind >15kt: 0.028% of observations
- Crosswind >25kt: 0% of observations
Counts reflect occurrences geo-attached within 25 km of the airport from our investigation-record corpus; they are not a complete history and are not a safety ranking. A recorded occurrence decades ago says little about operations today.