On October 31, 2024, a plane had to turn around mid-flight because of strange noises heard in the hold. The Buenos Aires-New York flight was canceled before being rescheduled.
Strange noises one Halloween evening, several thousand meters above sea level. This is the intriguing experience that passengers on a flight from Buenos Aires to New York went through on Thursday, reports Clarinan Argentinian media outlet.
“Strange” noises
A full flight to the United States, strange noises rang out from the hold of the American Airlines plane. According to our colleagues, this was similar to the sound that someone would produce if he hit the passenger compartment wall. Passengers raised the alarm and the crew tried to determine the origin of the problem, to no avail.
The pilot then made the decision to turn around, so that security teams could ensure that there was no one in the hold.
American Airlines flight AA954 returns to Buenos Aires Airport after a ground worker gets trapped in the cargo hold.
Flight attendants alerted the pilots to a banging noise coming from the cargo hold as the aircraft was heading to New York. An hour into the flight the crew… pic.twitter.com/lT5synhhRB
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U-turn
The plane interrupted its 8,500 kilometer journey, turned around, and returned to Argentina where authorities had been warned of the strange phenomenon.
A specialized team from the Airport Security Police (PSA) intervened once the plane was on dry land. “Noises were heard in the warehouse, enough to suggest that there was something unusual going on,” the authorities explain.
Telling that “the commander reported a security issue due to hearing noises coinciding with the presence of a person in the warehouse.”
Eventually : “The warehouse was opened and luggage containers began to be unpacked, without seeing anything outside of the normal parameters at the time.” The origins of these noises will remain a mystery worthy of All Saints' Eve.
