Two F-16 fighter jets were scrambled to escort a flight from Los Angeles to John F. Kennedy Airport Sunday afternoon after three passengers refused to come out of a bathroom. I mean are these people crazy?!! Why would they do something like this!! Find out more details after the jump…
The flight landed safely after 4 p.m.
The Transportation Security Administration said in a statement that it was “notified of passengers allegedly behaving suspiciously” onboard the flight at about 3 p.m., and that the jets were scrambled “out of an abundance of caution.”
“Law enforcement met the flight and will interview passengers,” the TSAÂ said.
The passengers on American Airlines Flight 34 went into a bathroom and were “not compliant,” a security official told NBCÂ New York.
New York City has been under heightened alert since intelligence was picked up overseas indicating a possible plot to coincide with the 10th anniversary of 9/11.
U.S. military officials tell NBC News that the intercept was “normal” and required no other action from the pilots other than to escort the plane.
One military official told NBC News that military jets were in the air over New York and Washington as a matter of routine precaution for 9/11.
It’s not clear whether these two F-16s were part of that air patrol.
American Airlines did not immediately comment.
