This is not your captain speaking: Moans and groans are taking over some flights' PA systems
It began almost as soon as he stepped onto the plane. As Emerson Collins, a film producer and nonprofit director, boarded his American Airlines flight from Los Angeles to Dallas on Sept. 6, a bizarre noise from the plane's intercom system flooded the cabin: a loud groan — or was it a moan? — laced with pain — or was it pleasure? It was difficult to discern. "It was either someone's unfortunate ...
by Alexandra E. Petri, Los Angeles Times
Sep 26, 2022
3 minutes
It began almost as soon as he stepped onto the plane.
As Emerson Collins, a film producer and nonprofit director, boarded his American Airlines flight from Los Angeles to Dallas on Sept. 6, a bizarre noise from the plane's intercom system flooded the cabin: a loud groan — or was it a moan? — laced with pain — or was it pleasure?
It was difficult to discern.
"It was either someone's unfortunate food poisoning in the bathroom or, like, someone with an uncomfortable approach to personal satisfaction,"
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