First, got here the information that flight attendants are literally scanning you once they greet you onto the aircraft. And now, evidently the crew has been sharing secret messages over a little-known code in aircraft (sorry) listening to of passengers.
John Cox, retired airline captain and proprietor of security consulting firm Security Working Methods, shared the knowledge with USA Right now.
He responded to a reader’s query which learn, “Throughout a flight, I’ve observed that there are ‘dings’ when bulletins are being made. I as soon as heard a hearsay that two dings [are for] one thing extra frequent (resembling fasten seatbelts as a consequence of tough climate forward), whereas 3 and 4 ‘dings’ are for rather more critical points through the flight. Is that this true?”
Cox replied within the affirmative, saying that “totally different airways use the chimes in a different way.”
As an example, “A single chime may very well be to the flight attendants to advise them of pending uneven air, maybe critical sufficient that they need to be seated. One other chance could be, ‘when you’ve gotten time, might we please have a espresso?’“
And two chimes is often used to imply that the aircraft is approaching 10,000 ft in altitude, he mentioned.
“A 3+ chime may very well be to inform the flight attendants to be seated NOW as a consequence of experiences of turbulence that have been simply acquired by the pilots,” or {that a} passenger is critically injured, he added.
However “I might not mechanically draw the conclusion that extra chimes point out a major problem,” he mentioned.
I do know! Flight attendant Tommy Cimato confirmed the actual fact in a TikTok, saying that tones that go from excessive to low often imply that cabin crew are attempting to achieve one another ― or that the flight deck is making an attempt to contact them.
He says in his video that three chimes are used on his flight to imply there’s an emergency ― although he stresses that that is extraordinarily hardly ever used.
All I do know is, I’ll be retaining my ear out for chimes going ahead…
