It began almost as soon as he stepped onto the plane.
As Emerson Collins, a film producer and nonprofit director, boarded his American Airlines flight from Los Angeles to Dallas on Sept. 6, a bizarre noise from the plane’s intercom system flooded the cabin: a loud groan — or was it a moan? — laced with pain — or was it pleasure?
It was difficult to discern.
“It was either someone’s unfortunate food poisoning in the bathroom or, like, someone with an uncomfortable approach to…