Woman boarding Delta aircraft without ticket or identification

(CNN) – Authorities are investigating how a woman was able 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 officers responded to reports of a suspicious person Saturday morning at the airport.

When officers arrived, the passenger had been escorted by the aircraft by Delta representatives after she was unable to produce a boarding pass for the flight, according to the statement.

Officers asked the passenger for identification and for their boarding pass. She said she had thrown her ticket and had no identification, the police statement states. The officers then escorted the passenger to the shuttle to leave the property at the airport.

The Transportation Security Administration told CNN in a statement that the person was shown before boarding the plane.

"We are working with law enforcement to investigate the incident in the aircraft and will not provide any additional information about this time," the TSA statement said.

The FBI was notified and will follow up on the incident, according to the Orlando Police Department.

Delta Air Lines asked Flight 1[ads1]516 passengers to apologize in a statement "for the delay after a person who did not have a ticket for this flight was removed from the aircraft." Everyone on board was re-introduced as a precaution, the airline said.

"Delta is working with local law enforcement and the Transportation Security Administration for their investigation, and we are conducting our own review of this as well," the airline's statement states. "Safety and security are always our top priority."