I have had this happen twice now so I figured I would post it. When I hit a station, normally I take a little damage. Very rearily though I will die instantly (even if I was at 100% before). This instant death only requires a mild tap with the station, no turbo or anything. I have noticed it seems to happen when hitting those thin antena looking extrusions. Please fix this as I lost my only 2 widowmakers (that I will likely not be able to get again for a long time) because of this.

Were you flying a Vulture at the time?

He was flying an IDF Valkyrie. I was in the sector with him when he crashed.

If the antennae catch a valk in the right nook or cranny, it goes spinning wildly into oblivion.

wingbugged. I did that with my valk several times.

Think of it this way... that antenna is thin yet absolutely rigid... if you were to run into it even at low speed it would rip right through your spacecraft leading to instant death. It actually makes perfect sense. (In fact the actual bug might be that we can run into these antenna WITHOUT dying, of course in reality something of that length and thickness would not be absolutely rigid (depending on material I suppose), making it a bit less lethal.)