Kamikaze Sub Hunters
 

So, it's December 43 and I'm cruising to the South China Sea when a report of a giant convoy comes through. Turn south to intercept. Suddenly my radar guy reports an aircraft heading straight towards me. I do a quick dive, level off deep and jump to the external camera (I just gotta watch).

Here comes a nice twin-engine bomber, dives and drops on my last seen position, then does a backflip and smashes into the ocean! It happened so fast I didn't even think to get a screenshot. There's a nice red sunken-ship icon now where he went down.

I dunno, maybe he thought he dropped on his own side, and crashed instead of going home to explain. Come to think of it, there might have been a RR painted on the side of the fuselage...:D

TMO 1.7 and RSRDC

Wasn't me! I'm wearing stripes and bustin' rocks!:mad:

Odd, this AM detected two aircraft on radar but shortly after that and before I could crash dive, one disappeared and a grey sunken ship icon replaced it. This about 100 nm north-east from Wewak in mid-June '42.

The remaining aircraft never closed and soon flew off to the west and out of SD coverage. I never got a visual and sailed over to the sunken ship icon but found nothing.

Same sort of event I wonder?

That's a bug that happens from time to time. Usually they hit the water before they pull out of a dive resulting in 100 flips per seconds. Sometimes it just happens. Planes can do strange things. I even caught the famous japanese stuntman Nochuta Wingawalka performing his act.

http://i651.photobucket.com/albums/u...002131_640.jpg

Lucky they didn't shoot you. You'll have a few hundred wives to answer to when you get out.

Maybe he just did a go-around trying to land on his carrier and accidentally picked up the poor Landing Officer or honourable flight deck sweeper.:)