It just happened again around 11:51AM EST on 11/26/15. I was playing walker assault and I was on my 3rd or 4th match. I have been flying fine before with imperials and now was playing rebels and jumped in an a-wing. It played fine the first couple of times until I spawned again and then same the thing resulted.
One thing peculiar that I forgot to mention in my original post is that the powerups change when this issue occurs. As far as I've noticed the standard load should be shield and missile. But when the bug kicks in, it changes to speed boost and jammer. I hope this helps in identifying the issue.