Not to be confused with Free Fall, a bike race in Grand Theft Auto Online.
Freefall is a mission in Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas given to protagonist Carl Johnson by Leone Family Don Salvatore Leone from his office in Caligula's Palace, a casino located along The Strip in Las Venturas, San Andreas.
Mission
Salvatore is sitting in his office at Caligula's Casino while Maria appears and gives him the ordered sandwich. After a while Carl Johnson shows up and informs Salvatore about having worked with his son Joey Leone back in Liberty City and that he can do anything Salvatore wants from him. Carl is informed that a Shamal plane is arriving at the airport soon and it contains Forelli Family hitmen coming to kill Salvatore. Carl then makes his way to the Las Venturas Airport and steals a Dodo. He flies over to the Shamal and follows it. After staying behind Carl jumps out of his Dodo and gets in the Shamal plane, killing every Forelli inside as well as the pilot. He then flies the plane back to the airport, completing the mission.
Mission Objectives
In order to complete the mission the player must:
- Get to the airport
- Steal the plane in the hangar
- The hitmen's flight is due to land soon, intercept the plane before it gets to Las Venturas
- Get behind the plane and fly into the corona
- Kill the Forelli hitmen
- Kill the pilot
- Fly the plane back to the airport
Reward
The reward for completing this mission is $15,000 and an increase in respect. The mission Saint Mark's Bistro is also unlocked if the missions Green Goo, High Noon and Madd Dogg are completed.
Trivia
- Freefall is unique for allowing Carl to take cover instead of crouching during the shootout. Also, the player plays from a first-person perspective.
- No matter what weapons Carl may have in his inventory, he is automatically equipped with a 9mm pistol and this is the only weapon he is allowed to use during the firefight.
- The Shamal that Carl enters is actually an interior in the Hidden Interiors Universe.
- The mission's cutscene is the first chronological appearance of Maria Latore.
- This is considered one of the hardest mission in the series as the Dodo is extremely slow compared to the Shamal , and requires extreme accuracy to not miss the corona. If the Shamal passes the dodo before interception, there is no chance catching it.
- If CJ destroys the hijacked Shamal, the mission fails, even though the mission objective has already been reached.
- If CJ fails to reach the Shamal as it reaches land, it will stop flying straight and lose control. The mission will also fail.