Pilots locked down their cockpit when three passengers performed a bizarre Jewish prayer in the middle of the jet's cabin, the Daily Mail reports.

They radioed a security alert after passengers and flight attendants became alarmed during the flight from Mexico City to Los Angeles.

Police and firefighters with foam trucks met the Alaskan Airlines jet as it taxied to terminal two at LAX.

The men, Mexican nationals, were escorted off the plane and then questioned by the FBI before being released and allowed to continue their journey overseas.

Read more in the Daily Mail.

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