I experienced some very strange deaths last night also. I was flying an A/C. From what I can tell, Nobody was close to me at the time, I didnt lose parts. I just went bang and ended up in the tower.
Mostly you can write that off to bad SA or something, But a squadie had a few of those also. Then I heard a few complaints from others on Range.
So It seems to me, things were a little messed up last night.
Probably Internet problems or something.