DENVER – Frontier Airlines says three passengers have been detained at Detroit's Metro Airport after the crew of a flight from Denver reported suspicious activity.

The Transportation Security Administration said in a statement that the report Sunday afternoon prompted NORAD officials to send F-16 jets to shadow the flight until it landed safely in Detroit -- a step the agency said was taken "out of an abundance of caution."

Frontier spokesman Peter Kowalchuck said Flight 623 landed without incident in Detroit Sunday. Police took three passengers into custody after the crew reported that two people were spending a long time inside a bathroom on the plane during the flight.

Detroit Metropolitan Airport spokesman Scott Wintner says the Frontier flight crew radioed to request police help when the plane landed, prompting responders to greet the flight and question passengers after the aircraft taxied to a remote location at the airport.

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Wow, about two hours ago they escorted a plane with three people locke in bathrooms in an American Airlines(I think) flight to New York. I doubt this is a coincidence. robably some idiot "Truthers".

Two fighter jets escorted a New York-bound American Airlines flight from Los Angeles after three passengers locked themselves in the bathroom Sunday, the 10th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks, officials said.

A law enforcement official said it wasn't thought to be terrorism, and American Airlines spokesman Tim Smith said, "In our eyes, it's a big nothing."

The North American Aerospace Defense Command scrambled two F-16 jets to shadow Flight 34 until it landed safely at New York's Kennedy Airport at 4:10 p.m. (2010 GMT) Sunday, the Transportation Security Administration said in a statement.

The nature of the incident was unclear, but the passengers locked themselves in the bathroom and were still inside when the plane landed, the law enforcement official said. The official was not authorized to speak publicly and spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity.

Law enforcement met the flight and will interview passengers, the TSA statement said. The FBI responded to the airport.

The jets intercepted the flight about 100 miles (160 kilometers) west of New York and shadowed it until it landed, said John Cornelio, spokesman for the North American Aerospace Defense Command. He described the measure as precautionary.

Smith said a "security concern" was brought to the airline's attention but the plane's captain never declared any sort of security threat and never requested law enforcement help.

He said the crew used "normal procedures" to assess the circumstances and the plane landed as planned.

New York has been in a heightened state of security after federal officials received a credible but uncorroborated tip of a car bomb plot on the anniversary in either New York or Washington.

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