Spontaneous combustion

Next time this happens can you record a clip and share it here? We'd need to have the Quality Assurance team reproduce this so it would help a lot in factoring in what contributed to it leading up to the explosion.

This is just an example of it last night. As you can see while I was close there was plenty of space to move away after the strike. As the debris was well below my aircraft and my health was at 84% it does not make sense to for the health to instantly drop to 0% I have slowed the video to 0.25% the normal speed and the only conclusion I can make is that the hitbox of the aircraft must still remain in the air creating an invisible wall you cannot avoid at close distances, however this does not explain situations where the destroyed aircraft is at distances greater than 50m and yet your aircraft still explodes.

I wish I had recorded an event from 2 weeks ago when my aircraft had exploded while strafing the bridge on Twisted Steel at distance. I had killed a running solider from a distance of roughly 200m at an angle of 45° and as soon as they died I was greeted by an 'ACCIDENT' screen. I was not in a position to of been shoot by either a tank or RPG, I did not experience a lag spike and I was not under attack by either an AA or enemy aircraft. It almost seemed as though my planes health was linked directly to the enemy I had strafed.

The video was too large to upload here so please find the link to the video below

https://youtu.be/e-SQeHi0oEI

It looks like you ran into the debris from the aircraft that you were engaging with that likely led to the accident.

Slowing the footage down to 0.25% of the normal speed clearly shows the debris going down away from my aircraft pulling up. As I have said this is an issue that has plagued many people and what we have concluded is that 90% of the time we can see the dead body hit the plane and blow it up. How should a dead player have enough of a hitbox to reduce a plane from near 90% to 0%.

This also doesn't explain when you destroy aircraft at a distance greater than 50m

This was the point just as I exploded and as you can see the debris is not in line of my aircraft pitch

just a quick search on twitter throws up others hitting this issue. 

https://twitter.com/Ben8D8over/status/1082443991730343936

https://twitter.com/Ben8D8over/status/1082445781003657216

he apparently has lots of footage and has uploaded several to twitter.

I had the issue 3 times last night back to back in Fjell and 2 times in Twisted Steel....trust us when we say it's not just simply hitting debris

Product: Battlefield V
Platform:Microsoft XBOX One
Please specify your platform model. Microsoft Xbox One X
Which part of the game is the issue happening in? Multiplayer
Which part of the mode? Conquest
Please select your region Asia, Australia, Europe, North America, South America
On which server did this happen? All
When did this happen? (dd.mm.yy hh:mm) All times/dates
Summarize your bug Aircraft gets destroyed by invisible wall when destroying other aircraft
How often does the bug occur? Often (50% - 99%)
Steps: How can we find the bug ourselves? Fly aircraft ad shoot down other aircraft
What happens when the bug occurs? Enemy aircraft gets destroyed and regardless of distance, an invisible (glass) wall destroys your vehicle
What should be happening instead? This bug should not exist period

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There has been many posts on forums, twitter pages, YouTube videos, etc of glass wall destroys which should not exist. These are random occurrences and can happen to people who are not even engaged with the aircraft that was destroyed. After successfully destroying a vehicle (regardless of distance) your aircraft will immediately be destroyed apparently due to an "ACCIDENT', this is absolute rubbish and desperately needs to be addressed as this has been an issue since November 2018.

There is enough evidence on YouTube and forums showing this 'ACCIDENT' is not debris, vehicle collisions or any other excuse you wish to throw, so as to simply try and brush this under the carpet. This is an ongoing bug and needs to be resolved as it can ruin game-play experience when it happens multiple times a match. 

Any information or response to show an attempt to alleviate this problem would be appreciated, thank you