Woman boarding Delta flight without ticket or identification: how did it make fun of security?

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(CNN) - Authorities are investigating how a woman managed to board a Delta Air Lines flight from Orlando to Atlanta without identification or boarding pass.

The Orlando Police Department said in a statement that agents responded to a suspicious person report Saturday morning at the airport.

When the agents arrived, the passenger had been escorted out of the plane by Delta representatives after she did not deliver a boarding pass for the flight, according to the statement.

The agents asked the passenger for an identification and boarding pass. She said she had thrown her ticket and had no identification, according to the police statement. The agents then escorted an airport transport vehicle to leave the airport.

The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) told CNN in a statement that the woman was examined before boarding the plane.

"We are working with the police to investigate the incident on the plane and we will not provide additional information at this time," the TSA statement said.

The FBI was notified and will track the incident, according to the Orlando Police Department.

Delta Air Lines apologized to passengers on flight 1516 in a statement "for the delay after a person who did not issue a ticket for that flight was removed from the plane." Everyone on board was checked as a precaution, the airline said.

"Delta is working with the local police and the Transportation Security Administration in its investigation and we are also conducting our own review of this," the airline's statement said. "Security is always our top priority."

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