Shipnado!

[Crystal_Mace]

Are there any known glitches that would cause a landed ship to spontaneously tip over and start spinning around madly (destroying both the chute and  egine in collision with the Minmus surface) before settling into a 45° tilt from vertical and merrily skittering off across Minmus faster than my kerbal could chase it.  I switched to tracking, but my pilot who was EVA at the time shows as the only trackable object on Minmus. I'd gone EVA to plant the flag.  The menu let me report and take a sample, but theflag button was gone. Then the shipnado hit.  Switching back to Minmus, I was indeed the sole occupant of Minmus. No ship... not even debris.  If it helps, this was after a quicksave reload.  My first landing attempt resulted in Megumi Kermin on EVA started sliding down a slope out of control erupted into a glitch of kaliedascopic lines and shapes and disintegrated into a small puff of Minmus dust.  I can still reload again, but so far I haven't.  I'more fascinated and amused than annoyed, and thought reporting the phenomenon was more constructive, and more in the spirit of exploration and scientific inquiry that's so much a part of 'The BEST Space Simulator EVER'! (IMHO anyway...) BTW I'm playing the Enhanced game on a 3 month old Xbox One S.

This incident is now part of my game lore;  How Megumi Kermin, the furthest out of all her race so far was marooned on Minmus by the theft of her ship by unknown and wholly mysterious forces. I'd love to include the screen and vid caps, but I don't know how from an Xbox to the internet yet, or indeed if it's possible. 

[GrouchyDevotee]

PS4

I saw something similar. Your pilot left the ship, and you didn't have a probe core attached.

As far as I know this shipnado is because the reaction wheels were still spinning... Try turning SAS off before pilot exits the ship.?.

But now you have a reason to launch a rescue mission!