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Why would there be a "medical intercom" as one quoted redditor suggested? Surely in the event of a medical emergency the crew can communicate about it with the

• MBCook 4y ago
  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.
  • Kon-Peki 4y ago
    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 on top of passengers before getting to the aisle. Also, you can’t hear it - only the person wearing the headset hears anything…
    • derefr 4y ago
      > 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...
• tjohns 4y ago
  The medical intercom jack is often in the middle of the cabin (on equipped aircraft). Flight attendants can plug in an aviation headset with a very, very long cord, and the pilots patch it into one of the radios in the cockpit. This allows the flight attendants to talk to a doctor on the ground while they're physically next to a passenger's seat.
  • tomcam 4y ago
    > Flight attendants can plug in an aviation headset with a very, very long cord... This allows the flight attendants to talk to a doctor on the ground while they're physically next to a passenger's seat. That is pretty damn cool.
    • jeffrallen 4y ago
      Aeronautical engineers think of everything.