Colored indicator lights on ceiling on plane
 

You know those colored indicator lights on the ceiling of the planes? There are red, blue, and orange.

Blue is when someone pushes the stewardess call button.
Red is when the pilot calls on the telephone.

What is orange? I've never seen it illuminated in all my years of travel.

If you press the orange then you get showered in Orange flavour Tango.......;)


(in the UK Tango is an orange flavoured fizzy drink - the ads for it turned people orange and said they had been tango'd)


sorry - not got a clue what that one is for

Then perhaps orange is for when someone calls a male FA? :D

I believe orange is when someone gets locked in the toilet.

real-time information on homeland security threat levels :D

I believe that one is to indicate a sterile cockpit, so FAs don't bug the pilots during takeoff/landing.

one if definitely for smoke in the bathroom, ala someone lightin' up a smoke in there. I heard it go off last year on a 320. The sound was deeper, if not more ominous then the other "dings" you hear.

Moving this thread over to TravelBuzz.

Pls follow at its new home.

Thanks.

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There is a nice explanation from the BA boards: http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/briti...exit-sign.html

Including the memorable:

a FA friend told me each one, I only remembered that yellow=call button pushed in a lav.

Orange = Some bozo thinks we still answer call buttons

The amber lights tend to go off when there is more than one person in the lav;)

Didn't this thread start in TravelBuzz?

The TSA has decided that the meaning of the orange light is sensitive security information.:p

I heard somewhere that if the pink one flashed 6 times with 6 bongs it was code for an emergency? Not sure how true, but for a while I was certainly counting bongs!