Kinder Handling of Active Flights Missing Parts

[Frederf]

It would be nice if a scene is loaded which has craft in flight where some parts are missing that KSP would provide the option to delete the craft or not. If not the craft would remain but a substitute generic craft object (say a cube) would be displayed in its stead if it happened to be encountered in flight.

The reasoning is that the craft is valuable in its current situation often and it's simply a matter of starting KSP again with the necessary remedy to complete its consist of parts. Currently KSP auto-deleting craft means that without suitable backup files the user's progress is lost even if providing those parts on subsequent KSP starts is easy.

[Sirrobert]

What?

What does missing parts and autodeleting craft to do with eachother?

[Barefoot Friar]

If your craft has a missing part (say, a mod part that you accidentally deleted when adding and removing parts in your game folder), the game deletes the craft upon opening the save file. If you don't have a backup, you're screwed.