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This is not your captain speaking: Moans and groans are taking over some flights’ P.A. systems

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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,” Collins said. “Literally, it was halfway between an orgasm and vomiting.”

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