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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

#71

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>least intelligent Based on what?

Age, probably. Young kids aren't that smart.

A lot of what I am complaining about is actually people older than me peddling "advise" - how to become a data analyst (no understanding of data required!).

It just feels like Facebook-tier people given the content equivalent of a machine gun.

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

#73

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.

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

They have reports going back to June. It'll almost certainly solve the case if it's one individual.

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

#74
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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…

I'm struggling to understand how this would explain the account here: >Then the master power button up at 1L for the cabin power kept getting I pushed so it would shut off all the IFE, seat power and outlets. I had to push the button on again about 3 times inflight. Then the 2 got a call with the same groaning noise and thought it was one of us playing a joke but it wasn't us. >It certainly was freaking all of us and…

> Then the master power button up at 1L for the cabin power kept getting I pushed so it would shut off all the IFE

I can't even get passed the first sentence of this. What does any of this mean?

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

#75
post #6

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…

I'm struggling to understand how this would explain the account here: >Then the master power button up at 1L for the cabin power kept getting I pushed so it would shut off all the IFE, seat power and outlets. I had to push the button on again about 3 times inflight. Then the 2 got a call with the same groaning noise and thought it was one of us playing a joke but it wasn't us. >It certainly was freaking all of us and…

It's hard to follow what they meant when describing the button pushing.

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

#76
>Two indicator lights (red/green) serve as attention getters and ensure a far reaching call function when a respective message is displayed. The red light is used for system and emergency information, the green light for communication information. The lights are steady in normal situations and will flash in emergency situations.

>The ACPs give a long-range visual indication about the system status (e.g. PAX call active). They are installed at the ceiling in the middle of the aisle between the passenger/crew doors, close to the attendant stations.

>The lighted segments are activated either continuously (steady) or flashing. In case of "normal" calls they are not flashing (steady), in case of "abnormal" or "emergency" situations they will flash. Only the blue PAX call field will never flash, this will be always a "normal" indication

These indicator lights would be helpful in narrowing down if the emergency system was being engaged or not. Could potentially point to exploitation/hack of the PA system rather than rogue utilization of normal functions.

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

#77

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

Where did it say the source was from tiktok? They cited several separate Tweets about this same issue across multiple flights. They have recordings too

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

#78
post #66

Pretty interesting. If it’s a hoax, it’s a pretty good one. If it’s a hack of any sort someone is taking their life in their hands because being caught tampering with any commercial airline systems could mean significantly jail time. Cleaning crews and other staff have enough time on the plane to do something… I’m thinking like an Adafruit Waveshield with a timer or something. If it’s a ghost, it seems like a horny a…

> because being caught tampering with any commercial airline systems could mean significantly jail time.

not sure. A cursory reading of https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/32 doesn't mesh with a silly prank. Which law do you think they are breaking?

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

#79
post #69

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>least intelligent Based on what?

Maybe Instagram is worse but TikTok is full of the most dumb shit I can imagine, either that or people plugging their Instagram. There are smart people on it but they don't define the culture. The immediacy of the format is amazing but the content is awful.

TikTok is famous for adjusting the content to the user, so if it’s showing you dumb shit, then, well…

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

#80

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

I wouldn't be surprised at all if this was the case - kind of like an internet flash mob all in on the joke, waiting for reputable news sources to pick it up and show their lack of journalistic integrity.
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