1.2 made some weird changes to the way that pilots / planes take damage. If there is an enemy plane shooting at me, sometimes my plane will take damage but quite often I will die on the first or second shot. I know the people I am playing with are not cheating.
The only think I can think of is that it is either random, or there is a 'glitch' in the 1.2 plane model that puts holes where they shouldn't be - like the holes on the carrier in Coral Sea.
IMO the sniper in your story was probably taking pot shots at planes the whole game. His 3 kills were just lucky.
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