The orange light is coming from the bathroom.
Managing hundreds of passengers on a plane is no easy task.
It’s just the flight attendant’s job to make it look that way.
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To make it easier, they havetheir own secret languageto get through each and every flight.
What looks like an exit sign to the normal passenger is, in fact, a normal exit sign.
A steady orange light means that someone in the lavatory has pressed the call button.
If the light is flashing, it means that the smoke detector has been activated.
A light outside the bathroom in question will also light up to let flight attendants know where to go.
Sometimes a red light on the ACP may signal a call from the flight deck.
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