Suicidal Airplanes

Suicidal Airplanes

Around the state, airplanes can be
regularly seen crashing into tall objects. These airplanes seem to be oblivious to their surroundings, and may crash head-on into objects, even though there may be enough time for them to maneuver out of the way. Other times, the airplanes may crash head-on into the ground near the player, often resulting in death of the player or destruction of their vehicle.

The strange thing about these crashes is, that upon inspection of the wrecked airplanes, there does not seem to be any pilot. It is noted that the airplane has no pilot, even when it is in mid flight. This can be proven by looking into the handling files of the game. All of the aircraft are set to spawn without a pilot. Developers did this due to game's limitations, because spawning a pilot could take more operating and graphic memory, which were low back in 2004, the year San Andreas has been released.

The airplanes crashing into objects can be explained by their artificial intelligence. Airplanes are programmed to fly above the player in a straight line, regardless of whether or not there are any tall objects in their path. When the planes spawn, they end up crashing head-on into these objects, because they are not programmed to avoid them. This random factor may be annoying to some players.

The airplanes that crash are:

Rustler
Beagle
Cropduster
Stuntplane

Only these airplanes crash, because they are the only ones that are programmed to spawn flying. Even though the AT-400 and the Andromada also spawn flying, these airplanes fly at a much higher altitude, therefore it is nearly impossible for them to crash into anything in the game.

Locations
Plane crashes occur wherever there are very tall objects. There are frequent crashes on Mount Chiliad, or around the large rock formations in El Castillo del Diablo and Arco del Oeste. Airplanes also commonly crash into The Big Ear. There are also frequent crashes into the skyscrapers in downtown Los Santos and San Fierro.

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