I’m surprised that no one is considering the possibility that it’s a ghost?
Imagine spending all your afterlife in comercial air travel... That's some cruel punishment.
A mysterious voice is haunting American Airlines’ in-flight announcements
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#32Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
I know Unites Airlines used to make its pilot’s atc communications available on “channel 11”, but I think that all stopped post 9/11.
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#33Why would there be a "medical intercom" as one quoted redditor suggested? Surely in the event of a medical emergency the crew can communicate about it with the same systems they use for everything else?
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#35The 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?
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#36Why would there be a "medical intercom" as one quoted redditor suggested? Surely in the event of a medical emergency the crew can communicate about it with the same systems they use for everything else?
It may be to allow the flight attendants, taking care of the passenger, to speak directly to a ground crew without having to relay things to other people on the plane back-and-forth to the radio.
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#37It 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 fixi…
We must be listening to different tapes. Sounds very much human, very much male, very much young
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#38I’m surprised that no one is considering the possibility that it’s a ghost?
Ghosts on a Plane... starring Samuel L. Jackson
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#39I 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.
This might narrow it down some, but I have been on weekend flights that I recognized people on the return leg from the away leg. But even going from 200+ people to 10 would help
Re: A mysterious voice is haunting American Airlines’ in-flight announcements
#40The 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?
But if the dongle is up in the overhead bins, are they really going to go searching every been midflight to look for it?