VTOL Crash Site

== History ==
The AV-585 "Warrior II" crash site (also simply called the VTOL Crash Site) is the current location of the AV-585's remains. Warrior II was known to stop responding to contact at 15:41 GMT time on 8/5/2171, however it is unknown when exactly the VTOL crashed.
The Warrior II was originally built as the successor for the AV-571 "Warrior" VTOL. Like the rest of its cousins, it was originally built to provide air assistance to combative AEGIS Personal and also acted as logistics for the AEGIS sites (including the ones outside of the Border wasteland).
It is highly suspected that the Warrior II was shot down during the War of the Machine (the war between the Core, a powerful raider faction, and AEGIS).
== Discovery ==
The Warrior II was originally discovered by ARD Expedition Epsilon-7 when mapping the wasteland on 9/28/2171. Due to the fuel engine used in the modern AEGIS VTOL (AV), the fires are still going 4 years later.
It is known that the VTOL crash site contains a Fedorium Batteries.
=== PA-28-161 Model	===
The PA-28-161 Model is very similar to the current PA-28-165 Model, especially in external appearance. The PA-28-161 was a failed attempt to utilize a new potential fuel source which contained a mixture of fedoratomic material from fedoralite and other chemicals/substances. Several tests and flights were flown prior to the Warrior II, and the fuel was overall deemed safe. However these tests failed to properly test the fuel in certain key aspects which would eventually lead to the crash of the Warrior II.
=== Warrior II ===
The Warrior II was a PA-28-161 Model VTOL aircraft. As mentioned above, it was originally built to be the successor to the Warrior I, a PA-28-160 model VTOL Aircraft. The key difference between the Warrior I and II being the change in model which mostly included a change in fuel sources. It was originally meant as a cargo ship to transport materials to and from the various AEGIS-held sites beyond the immediate wasteland surrounding 0. 
=== Potential Causes ===
There are several suspected causes to the crash; while most contribute it to the fuel, which is the most likely and widely accepted possibility, there are also a number of other potential reasons for the crash. Firstly, during the week of its launch AEGIS had been infiltrated by a number of raiders from a fairly insignificant raider group. While these raiders were quickly dealt with within a few days by the AIA they are suspected to have been there in the few days prior and during the launch, meaning there is a chance, though slight, that they may have interfered with it. 
The second possibility is that a raid the day prior to the launch may have damaged the aircraft. While the raiders themselves failed to gain a notable holding on the roof, it is believed the ship may have taken some bullets from the crossfire, however an inspection the day of the launch showed no significant or critical damages which may have caused an incident.
=== Crash ===
While not too much is known about the process of crashing itself, as comms were distorted and outright cut at times, what is known is that the Warrior II was returning from a mission where AEGIS Personal personnel were sent out to an old AEGIS Factory, abandoned after the Nuclear War, to extract the remaining resources and parts. They were returning with several parts, primarily parts of Fedorium Batteries, when they crashed. It's believed that early problems could’ve been detected half way through the flight home, however went either unnoticed or undealt-with by the pilot. When the plane began entering the wasteland surrounding the border, they ran into the immediate issues. Reports show that they at first lost control over the engines, though they were still able to control the gliding. 
Next it's believed the engines caught on fire, as several other parts of the aircraft exploded or were damaged, effectively cutting off most control. While not much else is known about the crash itself, what is known is that while 2-3 are believed to survive the immediate crash, they were then burned alive by the massive fire forming around it.
=== Aftermath ===
Whether or not the crash was directly caused by the fuel, inspection of the crash did help ARD notice several flaws in the fuel that if gone unnoticed, most certainly would have caused some form of incident or crash later down the line. Furthermore, the way the fuel was created made it so that the fire continued to burn consistently, even years after the crash, while attempts were made to calm the fire, all of them failed and ARD eventually gave up on calming the fires. 
Eventually the fires died down on their own, becoming isolated to only certain parts of the aircraft, such as the engines and fuel tanks. The crash itself also allowed for several wastelanders to utilize some of the resources extracted from the Warrior II’s mission to use for themselves. Some utilize the batteries parts to sell batteries to ARD or for other uses. Some simply seize some of the left-over credits to make purchases in and out of the wasteland. Nevertheless, the crash site still remains there, and its never-ending fires prevent AEGIS from fully cleaning up the crash site.
Credits: Crab_Commander (Swiss#3901) / Update by DeadlyAgentt (Agent#9568)
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