Suicidal Airplanes

Suicidal Airplanes is a common myth in Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas. 

Description

Around the state, airplanes can be regularly seen crashing into tall structures. These airplanes seem to be oblivious to their surroundings, and may crash head-on into structures even though there may seemingly 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 his 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. It is not known why game developers did this.

The airplanes crashing into structures 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 structures, because they are not programmed to avoid them. Even though this random factor may be annoying to some players, it remains a mystery why game developers made the airplanes have no pilot.

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 theAT-400 and the Andromada also spawn flying, these airplanes fly at a much higher altitude, therefore it is impossible for them to crash into anything in the game.