If you thought you had seen all the hilarious bugs that Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas had to offer, think again. A recently surfaced video clip shows one of the most absurd glitches players have encountered yet in the classic open-world game — and luckily for us, a former developer swooped in on social media to explain why it happened, too.
The video, shared on Twitter (or X, if you prefer), depicts a player attempting to park a helicopter on a towed truck and driving it into a garage. So far, so good. However, when the garage door reopens, the laws of physics have gone completely out the window — the helicopter is now resting upside down while the truck remains perfectly upright.
It gets even better. When the player tows the flipped helicopter back out and climbs aboard, the chopper takes off and proceeds to fly along... upside down. Thankfully, former Rockstar developer Obbe Vermeij, who worked on San Andreas and has been on a recent "behind the scenes" streak online, had a simple explanation for the gravity-defying bug.
According to him, when a garage door closed, the game would remove the vehicles inside to reduce RAM usage on aging PlayStation 2 hardware — this method isn't exclusive to San Andreas, but is fairly common; and also fairly often the source of some glitches.
However, upon reopening the garage, the vehicles were recreated based on their stored positions and attributes. It seems that the code responsible for this process encountered a glitch when dealing with helicopters, leading to their inverted recreation.
