What gives with planes disappearing in thin air and then shooting you but nowhere to be found is the plane doing the shooting.

Extreme lag from one or more devices.

It's not cheating. It's a slow Internet connection. Here's how it works:

You and an enemy plane are flying. You see them, turn, and begin firing. You, on your screen, register that you successfully struck them. For this to happen, the signal containing the bullet must travel from your phone, along your Internet connection, to the server that hosts the game. From there, the enemy's phone request the signal, and the server sends it along their connection, into their phone, and they receive the information that you shot them down. Their phone then sends the signal back to the server, along his Internet connection, to the server. The server then sends that information out to everyone's phone, along their own connection. Once that signal reaches you, that is when you see that you successfully shot them down.

Make sense?

Yes it does make sence

if its a single person dissapearing then read above.

If it is all planes dissapearing like they have been lately then i think its a server problem.The server has been under attack recently which may also explain the multiple hits to kill and weird spawning planes and mixed up missions.Maybe barking up the wrong tree but my bets the server not the game nor a cheat.

I'm sorry I confess it wasn't me. this time......

When you put it like that I feel like a douchebag for complaining. I tend to forget what is actually at play and how lucky we are to even have such tech available to us on our phones. Thanks again for the breakdown.

Nah, don't worry about it. You didn't know. I thought the same thing for a while.