Airport Troubles

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Airport Troubles
Faction Mission
Faction	Roaches
Prerequisite Stronghold	Free Trade
Faction Influence Level	2
Required Chaos	60,000
Location	Panau International Airport, Ramai Rakyat Islands X:9350; Y:12754
Rewards
Chaos	7,500
Cash	17,500
Weapon Parts	1
Vehicle Parts	1

Airport Troubles is a Roaches faction mission in Just Cause 2.

Introduction

It's a short and easy mission to retrieve information for Razak Razman and the Roaches. Even so, this mission is a "stage completion", a type of faction mission that gives a bigger reward and during these missions the in-game clock is usually locked on a specific time. The mission also includes some odd destructables and rare vehicles. See listed below at the trivia.

Get out to Panau International Airport and contact Razak Razman from the phone booth to start this mission. He's a little annoyed that someone called Little Guy, a hacker in his employ has decided to turn evidence over to the authorities in exchange for a flight out of Panau to Korea (probably South Korea). You must retrieve the Roaches codes and passwords before Little Guy can flee the country.

Walkthrough

Kill the pilot

Take the messy but direct route through the main entrance and the government troops, or instead go left around the hangar to the end of the runway and hop up right next to the hangar, where the pilot is. He's got company, so you'll have to take the lot out, then grab the PDA he drops.

There is also a less direct way to get in: go round the left side of the building, Grapple on top of the pilot's hanger and drop down from there to avoid a shoot out and subsequently lose ammunition.

Get Little Guy

Razak gets the information and then tells you that Little Guy is already on board the plane, waiting on the runway. Hijack it. It's faster to grab the nearby MV V880 parked in the hangar. The Cassius 192 that Little Guy is waiting in is across the arrival terminal on another runway. There are a pair of soldiers armed with rocket launchers right next to the Cassius and a few additional soldiers near a green Maddox FVA 45 with a Mounted Gun.

If the rocket launchers are troublesome, the easiest way to handle them is to approach the plane from the woods and use the nearby fence for cover.

The plane itself is much more durable than a normal one, but the amount of damage it can take is unspecified. If it does get destroyed at this point, the mission fails.

You can either rush to the plane and take off immediatly or take out some nearby soldiers (at least those with rocket launchers) for more security. When Little Guy realizes that you are working with the Roaches, he panics and offers the information you seek, in exchange for being released. When Razak receives the data the mission ends instantly on the plane and he instructs you to do whatever you want with Little Guy. Little Guy despawns when the mission ends, so he never exits the plane.

Trivia

• This mission has 2 sets of unusual sabotage destructable objects:
  • During the mission, 4 vertical-standing Fuel Depots appear next to runway 2 on Panau International Airport. They appear only during the mission and don't appear at the location at any other time. They will not count to the completion of the airport or to the total amount of destroyed Fuel Depots.
  • Oddly there are also 6 unusual gas tanks in a unique container near Little Guy's plane, which explode instantly from a single hit and provide 60 chaos points.
• Shortly after the mission, the Panau Broadcasting Company will broadcast a radio news segment about this: "Earlier today, the Panau International Airport, which has been closed down until further notice, was the scene of a violent series of events, when a number of convicted foreign criminals mysteriously exploded, taking with them several Panauan officials. Police are looking into the tragedy, but have no comments as of now."
• The player is not expected to actually fly the plane to Korea, so the drop-off coordinates are in the Berawan Besar Mountains, at no point of interest.
• The pilot shares their character model with the Black Market dealer.
• Assuming that the player has completed this airport to 100%, this is the only time when Aeroliner 474s are taking off from the runways. Same with Nothing to Declare. This is why it's advised to leave the airport at less than 100% completion.
• Little Guy cannot be seen, as he does not leave the plane. When the mission ends his character despawns (if there even is an NPC in the plane).
  • In-universe, his fate depends on the player who can either leave the plane (killing him by a plane crash), or land the plane and leave him alone. Furthermore, there will be no more mentioning of him throughout the game.
• This is one of two missions featuring Panau International Airport. The other being Nothing to Declare.
• This mission features some relatively rare vehicles.
  • An Aeroliner 474 that appears here is the only green-marked one in the game, meaning that the player doesn't get heat if the military sees Rico using it. Unfortunately, it cannot be used, because taking off fails the mission.
  • The UH-10 Chippewa that shows up is one of the rare ones with no passenger. Not just that, but if the player waits until all the heat disappears and then enters the plane, they get pre-heat. At this point, the helicopter attacks Rico regardless of heat.
  • The MV V880 that shows up to escort the plane leaves Rico alone even in heat. The vehicle may still be at the airport by the time the mission is complete, but can not be entered.
  • The military does own a few Maddox FVA 45s at their bases, but they only use them in 2 missions.
  • The Cassius 192 featured is significantly more durable than usual, also has a limited throttle before it starts ascending.
    • This vehicle in particular was the source of a minor editing dispute in March to April 2020 regarding its destructibility, as it was thought to be invulnerable. Further testing on a PC disk version revealed that the plane is indeed very tough, but can be destroyed after taking significant quantities of small arms fire. See also: Talk:Airport Troubles.

Gallery

Main building of the Panau International Airport, seen from the road. The mission trigger is a phone booth near here.

The pilot is at a hangar at the corner of the airport.

For some reason this MV V880 cannot be used.

The Cassius 192 can take a significant amount of gunfire from the Panau Military NPCs before the windows crack, and even then Rico would also need to empty a couple of magazines at it to make it catch fire.

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