So I was flying around in the pink arena just now from a CV we had in sector 3,6. I saw some high cons that I thought were enemy buffs and I lifted in F4U-4 to intercept them. Turned out the buffs were friendly but there were enemy interceptors after them and I chased one around for awhile before I finally finished him off and that's when things got weird. I was at about 1/4 fuel so I headed back to the carrier, was on my final approach to land when *poof*, the CV and both cruisers vanished. I didn't have time to get my flaps back up and throttle up before I hit the drink and crashed. When I ended my sortie, I was back on the same task group but it was now at sector 2,11.
Is that normal? None of the ships were damaged visibly and there were no enemy cons anywhere around. It just vanished.