On occasion, a particularly funny thing can happen on online servers. What follows is a combination of theory and observations: apparently player aircraft that should be removed (e.g. after landing & hitting refly) can somehow leave an unoccupied static plane behind (!). It's not just a graphic bug, these ghost planes, although rare, are very real and solid.
I landed a MC200 on an airfield, hit refly, and flew a 109 sortie instead. I took off using a taxiway, so I didn't notice the MC200 then...
As I landed, I did see an unoccupied (no friend icon) MC200 in the middle of the runway, but I thought it was a non-corporeal ghost. I had seen them before, probably "left behind" by other players. But, this one took my wing off - I tried to dodge just to be safe, but there wasn't enough room. On the resulting .ntrk film, the plane is nowhere to be seen, but my wing comes off - my 109 collides with an invisible object! Eventlog.lst says that I collided with something called 54_Static.
Also, on the airfield that this happened, MC200 can't be spawned as far as I know - they're on another airfield.
I hope it got removed for good after I disconnected. Ghosts, I tell you!
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