A passenger reported being initially startled by a flight attendant PA banter on landing until he re...

Narrative:

Although I appreciate a jovial cabin crew; I suggest the theatrics be limited to non-critical portions of the flight. As among the flight crew; non-essential and distracting banter should be limited to sterile cockpit rules in the cabin; too.upon touchdown; cabin crew used PA system to create noises which; once I figured it out; were imitations of a horse. Although this appeared to delight some passengers; it frightened me for a moment as I thought one of the flight deck crew had a stuck mic on the PA and was expressing fear. As this was a rather non-normal occurrence to an otherwise uneventful touchdown; I truly thought something had gone wrong.I believe cabin crews should observe a more appropriate use of PA during critical phases.

Original NASA ASRS Text

Title: A passenger reported being initially startled by a Flight Attendant PA banter on landing until he realized the theatrics were not aircraft related noise.

Narrative: Although I appreciate a jovial cabin crew; I suggest the theatrics be limited to non-critical portions of the flight. As among the flight crew; non-essential and distracting banter should be limited to sterile cockpit rules in the cabin; too.Upon touchdown; cabin crew used PA system to create noises which; once I figured it out; were imitations of a horse. Although this appeared to delight some passengers; it frightened me for a moment as I thought one of the flight deck crew had a stuck mic on the PA and was expressing fear. As this was a rather non-normal occurrence to an otherwise uneventful touchdown; I truly thought something had gone wrong.I believe cabin crews should observe a more appropriate use of PA during critical phases.

Data retrieved from NASA's ASRS site and automatically converted to unabbreviated mixed upper/lowercase text. This report is for informational purposes with no guarantee of accuracy. See NASA's ASRS site for official report.

Attributes
ACN	1265264
Time
Date	201505
Local Time Of Day	1201-1800
Environment
Flight Conditions	VMC
Light	Daylight
Aircraft 1
Make Model Name	Commercial Fixed Wing
Operating Under FAR Part	Part 121
Flight Phase	Landing
Person 1
Function	Passenger
Events
Anomaly	Deviation - Procedural Published Material / Policy Flight Deck / Cabin / Aircraft Event Other / Unknown

A passenger reported being initially startled by a flight attendant PA banter on landing until he realized the theatrics were not aircraft related noise.