This one was earlier, probably last night, but...
Had to go kill a bunch of people on a boat. As soon as I got on the jet ski to head for the boat, I have an attack chopper on me. As I'm driving(is that the word?), I'm trading fire with it from my pistol(with infinite ammo). I'm getting close to the boat and I don't want the attack chopper harassing me, plus I see I got it to smoking damage, so I stop to get a steadier aim to finish it off. It drops a missile on me, direct hit, I'm dead instantly. I have to start the mission over from the start, which includes the lengthy drive to the jet ski in the first place.
Next attempt, I board the jet ski, the chopper attacks, I turn on cruise control to focus on shooting, it fires a missile immediately, killing me.
It could have done that at any point last time.Third attempt(spoiler: was successful), I decide "screw the jet ski" and pull a helicopter out of my headquarters. Instantly, I get a warning about the attack helicopter, rather than just getting to the water. I flail about, trying to spot it, only to smack into a building, flip over, and stretch to the breaking point the definition of the word "land" in the parking lot outside my HQ. I climb back up to my helipad, notice that I can't recall the helicopter I "landed", so I grab another helicopter. At least with this, I could dodge the attack chopper's missiles, made it to the boat, everyone died
except me for once.
Saints Row II. The first chopper was recoverable after the mission, I just had to pay a repair fee on both helicopters since I, uh, "landed" the second one on the boat.