Severe weather has forced U.S. Sen. Jim Inhofe to land his airplane at a small airport in Oklahoma.
Donelle Harder, a spokeswoman for the Oklahoma Republican, told The Associated Press Inhofe was out flying Sunday evening when weather forced him to land in Ketchum, about 70 miles northeast of Tulsa.
Harder says the 81-year-old senator, an avid pilot, "walked away" and is at home with his family. She says he was flying with another local pilot, each in separate planes.
FAA spokesman Lynn Lunsford says the agency received a report that a pilot veered into some brush Sunday evening to avoid a deer on the runway at Ketchum. The agency did not release the pilot's name but said the person was not injured.
Much of the state was under a severe thunderstorm watch Sunday.