Blair
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I've had more then I can remember, but the most recent was a few day ago while playing bf1942 Forgotten Hope on one of the the big 50 player servers.
The map was Crete, and I was on the axis side. Our base was located off shore and the only access to the objectives was by plane. The Junkers JU-52 is the drop ship along with one fighter for escort. Myself and about 6 others including the pilot, pile into the plane. Take-off is normal, slowly the plane rise's over the water with the sunset in the background. The first signs of land appear, chaos errupts below as enemy trrops scramble for the flak cannons and radio ahead to the other base's. Within seconds there are flak shell's bursting all around, our escort tries to distrack the enemy spitfire's from engaging the helpless transport.
We are about halfway to our drop-zone, just then a flak shell hits us, the engines are smoking and the troops in back with me are screaming to the pilot to open the jumpdoor so we can begin our assault. No sooner, another flak takes a direct hit, the engines are on fire and we're losing altitude. The pilot has lost complete control over the plane, quickly noticing he can't do anything, he bail's... Without opening the jumpdoor for the others in back.. Time stops, and total silence. Then someone jumps from the back into the pilots seat. We are yelling "Pull up! Pull up!", others are crying "Mayday Mayday!" over the voicecom. The engines come back online, and he tries to pull up but we are low and slow. He opens the jumpdoor to save who he can. A few men jump but the plane is so low that they can't deploy their parachutes in time and die. He starts to get some speed when I happen look out the window a notice the hugh hill that we are about to crash into. I try to jump, but its too late. I get caught in the blast and the anyone who was onboard died in the wreck.
Mission failed. lol
The map was Crete, and I was on the axis side. Our base was located off shore and the only access to the objectives was by plane. The Junkers JU-52 is the drop ship along with one fighter for escort. Myself and about 6 others including the pilot, pile into the plane. Take-off is normal, slowly the plane rise's over the water with the sunset in the background. The first signs of land appear, chaos errupts below as enemy trrops scramble for the flak cannons and radio ahead to the other base's. Within seconds there are flak shell's bursting all around, our escort tries to distrack the enemy spitfire's from engaging the helpless transport.
We are about halfway to our drop-zone, just then a flak shell hits us, the engines are smoking and the troops in back with me are screaming to the pilot to open the jumpdoor so we can begin our assault. No sooner, another flak takes a direct hit, the engines are on fire and we're losing altitude. The pilot has lost complete control over the plane, quickly noticing he can't do anything, he bail's... Without opening the jumpdoor for the others in back.. Time stops, and total silence. Then someone jumps from the back into the pilots seat. We are yelling "Pull up! Pull up!", others are crying "Mayday Mayday!" over the voicecom. The engines come back online, and he tries to pull up but we are low and slow. He opens the jumpdoor to save who he can. A few men jump but the plane is so low that they can't deploy their parachutes in time and die. He starts to get some speed when I happen look out the window a notice the hugh hill that we are about to crash into. I try to jump, but its too late. I get caught in the blast and the anyone who was onboard died in the wreck.
Mission failed. lol