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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
#82Pretty 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?
I doubt courts would interpret "hacked into an airplane's communication system" as a silly prank, but I ANAL.
Re: A mysterious voice is haunting American Airlines’ in-flight announcements
#83Earlier quoted context omitted.
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…
It tries to show me people talking about maths and finance and programming but they're all either infantilising themselves for some reason or not very good at it.
And anyway I have a fair amount of karma here so what does that say about hackernews if your implication is correct...
Re: A mysterious voice is haunting American Airlines’ in-flight announcements
#84This could be an internal thing done as to arouse curiosity and attract passengers over the Halloween and the following holiday season.
Re: A mysterious voice is haunting American Airlines’ in-flight announcements
#85Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
I’ve been on a flight where they used the medical intercom. Nobody is going to use it without a whole lot of people noticing. And yes, it is there so the attendants can talk directly to medical personnel on the ground while attending to the person needing care. PS - “intercom” is probably going to give people the wrong idea. It’s a headset with a thick black 50-foot long cord, and when you plug it in, it dangles down…
> Nobody is going to use it without a whole lot of people noticing.
Well, if you make use of the complete system, sure. But if it just takes a regular TRRS jack; and if someone finds the socket and plugs their own headphones directly into it...
Re: A mysterious voice is haunting American Airlines’ in-flight announcements
#86Earlier quoted context omitted.
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?
1L is the forward-most door on the port (left) side.
IFE is in flight entertainment.
Re: A mysterious voice is haunting American Airlines’ in-flight announcements
#87Earlier quoted context omitted.
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?
Uninformed guess: "The master [public address system] power button [located] up by [seat] 1L kept getting pushed so it would shut off all the IFE [(inflight entertainment)]"
This makes sense, because for safety reasons all the entertainment is paused when they use the public address system.
Re: A mysterious voice is haunting American Airlines’ in-flight announcements
#88I’m surprised that no one is considering the possibility that it’s a ghost?
It reminds me of a story I just heard about the allegedly haunted plane parts from the crash of EA 401. Obviously not the most probable explanation, but I found the story interesting. https://mysteriesrunsolved.com/2020/07/ghosts-of-flight-401....
Jesus H. Christ, that brings back memories. When I was (much) younger, probably somewhere between 9-13 or thereabouts, I had a brief phase when I really in to "weird stuff." I spent a lot of time reading books about UFO's, ghosts, the Bermuda Triangle, the Philadelphia Experiment, "ancient aliens", the "Oak Island money pit", blah, etc. etc. And the whole Flight 401 thing either figured very prominently in at least one book I read, or it kept re-appearing or both, because I just recalled a whole bunch of profound feelings associated with that story. I remember being really freaked out by it at the time. Enough so that I probably wouldn't have wanted to get on an airplane had I had any reason to fly back then (I didn't).
I'd like to say that even back then I mostly didn't really believe all that stuff, but I think maybe I kinda did, at least to a degree. Now I think it's all bollocks, and maybe that's one of the things I miss about being a kid... that sense of fascination with the mysterious and unknown and the sense of possibility that comes with allowing yourself to believe in the Bermuda Triangle, ghosts, yadda yadda.
Re: A mysterious voice is haunting American Airlines’ in-flight announcements
#89Pretty 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?
"Whoever ... causes to be made unworkable or unusable ... any part ... used in connection with the operation of such aircraft, if such placing ... is likely to endanger the safety of any such aircraft"
The "part" is the PA system. While the device is playing the prank sound, it is temporarily "made unworkable" for its intended purpose of allowing the crew to communicate with the passangers. This "endangers the safety of the aircraft" because in certain situations it's possible the crew would need to communicate quickly with passangers or have silence so that they can understand each other and focus on solving an issue.
Edit: Looks like captain could override, flight attendants couldn't. That still causes a safety risk because in an emergency the cockpit might want to focus on flying the plane while the flight attendants instructed the passangers. Plus the distraction factor remains.
Re: A mysterious voice is haunting American Airlines’ in-flight announcements
#90Aliens
That shit is fucking aliens