I wonder if AA has cross referenced the passenger list of each of the flights to see if there was a common passenger to all the flights.
A mysterious voice is haunting American Airlines’ in-flight announcements
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Re: A mysterious voice is haunting American Airlines’ in-flight announcements
#22The dongle idea is interesting but are we assuming someone is plugging in a dongle and making noises, on all these flights, sometimes for the duration of the flight and nobody finds these dongles?
Presumably they would unplug the dongle at the end of the flight while they retrieve their overhead luggage
Or… Nevermind, I’m not here to help people with this kind of thing!
Re: A mysterious voice is haunting American Airlines’ in-flight announcements
#23Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's not a ghost. Ghosts aren't real.
You only think this because the airlines normally suppress them.
If I ever write a script it will have this real life dialogue in it.
“Do you believe in ghosts?”
“No, do you?”
“Yeah, a bit. Think about all the times people saw and heard ghosts. Every single one of those times was wrong? Seems unlikely.”
“Do you believe in angels?”
“No.”
“Then what about all the times people saw an angel?”
“Those were just ghosts.”
Re: A mysterious voice is haunting American Airlines’ in-flight announcements
#24I wonder if AA has cross referenced the passenger list of each of the flights to see if there was a common passenger to all the flights.
Had the same thought. This is like “DOOM running on …” but for fart jokes, and I can’t imagine that there’s a whole gang of pranksters doing this.
Re: A mysterious voice is haunting American Airlines’ in-flight announcements
#25Maybe something in there is picking up the guard frequency. People make weird noises on that frequency all the time, including animal noises and screaming.
That wouldn’t go to the Public Announcement signal though.
Re: A mysterious voice is haunting American Airlines’ in-flight announcements
#26About to get on an AA flight, will report back!
Re: A mysterious voice is haunting American Airlines’ in-flight announcements
#27The dongle idea is interesting but are we assuming someone is plugging in a dongle and making noises, on all these flights, sometimes for the duration of the flight and nobody finds these dongles?
Presumably they would unplug the dongle at the end of the flight while they retrieve their overhead luggage
Assuming it’s one person with the dongle responsible for all 3-4 instances of this - it would be pretty easy for AA to figure out who’s doing it if this is the case, just check if there’s a common passenger on every flight where the issue was reported
Re: A mysterious voice is haunting American Airlines’ in-flight announcements
#28Maybe something in there is picking up the guard frequency. People make weird noises on that frequency all the time, including animal noises and screaming.
That wouldn’t go to the Public Announcement signal though.
Not on purpose, but there are YouTube videos of pilots accidentally doing in flight announcements on guard. Maybe there's some plane error that is sometimes causing the error the other way around.
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#29I’m surprised that no one is considering the possibility that it’s a ghost?
Well, at least it wasn't snake noises.
Re: A mysterious voice is haunting American Airlines’ in-flight announcements
#30It doesn’t sound particularly human and it seems like it would be a weird hobby to go on a bunch of flights and cause these strange sounds. Surely a prankster would get bored and move on to something like music or silly messages. (And if the airline believed passengers were doing it they might correlate flight records or something?)
I think I’d probably believe that it’s just some elctromechanical issue. I doubt fixing the PA system is going to be in the pilot’s manual and I’d expect flight attendants to be basically incompetent in dealing with such an issue.
I think I would guess either an issue with some prerecorded announcements system (eg playing bits of messages at strange speeds and at random) or some kind of electrical interference or short-circuiting problem (eg some glob of solder bouncing around inside some unimportant component).