NEW ORLEANS - A Southwest Airlines flight headed to Tampa Bay turned around after it struck a bird during departure Wednesday afternoon.

According to nola.com, the flight was heading out of the Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport around 2:30 p.m. when a bird strike resulted in the pilot turning around and the airport's runways being closed briefly to clean debris.

Other flights out of the airport experienced delays or diversions, director of communications at the New Orleans Aviation Board Erin Burns said, but both runways reopened as of 5 p.m..