@ KaleunMarco - the fire was so hot (how hot was it?) you could see the flames... but really, its the way the on-deck planes are built - or rather, just about anything destructible in the game. It all sinks...
@ Larrywb57 - thanks for that Larrywb57. As an update, I have found issues in all of the Jap Harbor Traffic files, which was "split" several versions ago for efficiency. Unfortunately when you copy a mistake in one file to six others, it makes if more difficult to find and "repair" the oversight. This is where the six ships in one on the east coast of Formosa came from. The was several in the one location. There was also one in Truk, a few in Osaka, etc. All told 15 I think is what I told s7rikeback... but anyway, since they don't spawn all of the time, and most of them are set to less that 30% spawn rates, you have a 1 in 3 chance of encountering a "resource" and / or "bandwidth" issue with the game when coming within these groups' "spawn range". This is not to say that it is the cause of the issue - but it certainly doesn't help things... In my attempts at the repair, I induced new errors into the files (

) - naturally, and I'm in the process of finishing up on the last one. Then I can try testing those files in a career and seeing if things are better.