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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

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Why not the alien soul crystals that enable flight trying to break free?

I'm glad you brought that up because (no joke) nobody can actually explain how aerodynamic lift works, much less how a plane can fly upside down: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/no-one-can-explai...

Stick your hand out the car window doing 60, and tilt it back. That's how they stay up there!

Re: A mysterious voice is haunting American Airlines’ in-flight announcements

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For those interested in the various aircraft systems for PA (public address) and aircraft status system for aircrew, I found this interesting training doc PDF online [1] for the A320/321. I have been looking at section "03-010 CABIN INTERCOMMUNICATION DATA SYSTEM" It does not mention the "medical intercom jacks" in overhead bins that are mentioned at the end of the article [1]: https://caisatech.net/uploads/XXI_3_AIR…

Apparently there is a compact flash card to play music and the pre-recorded announcement over the loud speakers.

I wonder if someone replaced the standard announcement with a 5 hour long file with intermittent burps and groans....

Re: A mysterious voice is haunting American Airlines’ in-flight announcements

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I’m surprised that no one is considering the possibility that it’s a ghost?

Right! Ghosts are a definite possibility. We should dispatch our bravest reality TV stars to find out what’s really going on on these flights.

These guys could probably help:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDsM-oKr2oU

Re: A mysterious voice is haunting American Airlines’ in-flight announcements

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It's not a ghost. Ghosts aren't real.

An accidental time traveler traveling slightly out of alignment with their timeline would likely manifest as something we would describe as a ghost, for a brief moment.

John Titor?

Re: A mysterious voice is haunting American Airlines’ in-flight announcements

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I could definitely be wrong but my go-to assumption when the source originates from Tiktok is to assume it's fake or staged.

> my go-to assumption when the source originates from Tiktok is to assume it's fake or staged.

Wise, although wiser to make that assumption for most sources. Until this starts being reported independently by more reliable sources then I assume it’s fake.

Re: A mysterious voice is haunting American Airlines’ in-flight announcements

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For those interested in the various aircraft systems for PA (public address) and aircraft status system for aircrew, I found this interesting training doc PDF online [1] for the A320/321. I have been looking at section "03-010 CABIN INTERCOMMUNICATION DATA SYSTEM" It does not mention the "medical intercom jacks" in overhead bins that are mentioned at the end of the article [1]: https://caisatech.net/uploads/XXI_3_AIR…

There’s also this video overview of the system.

https://youtu.be/0l2jUPI1fpk

Re: A mysterious voice is haunting American Airlines’ in-flight announcements

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post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why not the alien soul crystals that enable flight trying to break free?

I'm glad you brought that up because (no joke) nobody can actually explain how aerodynamic lift works, much less how a plane can fly upside down: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/no-one-can-explai...

Planes fly because of climate change.

Which causes us to need more climate change as we get more flights. Sad but true.

Re: A mysterious voice is haunting American Airlines’ in-flight announcements

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I could definitely be wrong but my go-to assumption when the source originates from Tiktok is to assume it's fake or staged.

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>least intelligent

Based on what?

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