Fighter jets escort passenger planes

FIGHTER jets escorted two flights — one to New York, another to Detroit — after passengers’ use of the bathrooms aroused suspicions on the 10th anniversary of the September 11, 2001, attacks.

On a Los Angeles-New York American Airlines flight, three passengers made repeated trips to the bathroom, officials said. The three were cleared after the plane landed safely at New York’s Kennedy Airport.

Earlier, on a Denver-to-Detroit Frontier Airlines flight, the crew reported that two people were spending “an extraordinarily long time” in a bathroom, Frontier spokesman Peter Kowalchuck said.

Police detained three passengers at Detroit’s Metropolitan Airport after the plane landed without incident. They were released after questioning.