Crash Site

"Our scouts are reporting sightings of a helicopter that has crash landed somewhere outside the city. The Monkey Pilot is likely injured. We have to get to him before those rubbery menaces do."

- Bloons Monkey City Mobile quest start description

"A Monkey Pilot has crashed his Helicopter. Rescue him from the bloons to unlock the Heli Pilot Monkey!"

- Bloons Monkey City Mobile level description

Crash Site is a Special Mission that involves saving a Heli Pilot from bloons. This mission is very similar to the Submarine Alliance mission: Same as the Broken 2/4 Sub, the broken Heli Pilot is at the middle. Paths go towards the Heli Pilot in 2 paths. You can either defend the Heli Pilot or repair it to use as a free tower. Repairing costs $1000, so players can pretty much get it on the first round. The highest bloon rank is the Ceramic Bloon and there are 17 rounds.

Walkthrough by Cutterfish12345
I started on Level 14 or 15 (I don't exactly remember the level) and with no extra cash, insta-monkeys or other stuff. This is how I did it:
 * Free the Heli Pilot by spending $1000 and place it on the undefended entrance. Don't forget to select the option 'Follow Touch'.
 * Put 1 Monkey Engineer at the entrance of one track and try to upgrade it to 1/X. (Use Ninja Monkey if you don't have the Engineer)
 * Then put another Engineer at the other start and try to upgrade it to 1/X.
 * Put two Wizards near the Engineer to take care of those pesky Lead bloons.
 * Upgrade the Heli Pilot to X/2 to take care of those pesky Camo bloons. (Upgrade it to 2/X instead if you have Ninja Monkey)
 * Place two Glue Gunners near the Wizards and upgrade them to 2/X.
 * After that upgrade the Heli Pilot to 2/2 and select the option 'Pursuit'.
 * To deal with those major pain in the neck Camo-Lead bloons, upgrade the Wizard to X/2.
 * Now the fundamentals are covered, do whatever you want, you'll probably be at Round 10.

Strategy by SuperBlastem
My strategy: I started with 90 lives. Not sure what level that is. I had 2-2 of 8 ninjas, 8 dart guys, 5 boomers, and 1 bomb. I didn't use boosts of any kind.


 * I fixed the helicopter with follow touch.
 * I put down what I could. If I could afford it, ninja. Otherwise, dart guy.
 * I spammed all the 0-0 monkeys over the rounds with the bomb to strong to pop lead. I just want to point out that 0-0 monkey squads are too underestimated.
 * I upgraded all the towers to max. There are no limits on heli guy. Get HIM to 3-0, then 3-2.
 * Use 4 continues on the first ceramic round which gives you decent cash.
 * The best part: sell everything and get...APACHE DARTSHIP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Set it to pursuit
 * Enjoy the win! I was cackling for minutes.

Kiwinovice some number i forgot's strategy (intermediate strategy)
i started with $1650 and i placed two 2-0 monkey engineers on the sides of the heli pilot

then when i got enough money i got two more to make a box around the pilot

then i got two 2-2 monkey apprentices behind the 2nd layer of the top swirl and the bottom swirl

then i fixed the pilot and upgraded him to 3-2

and then i completely upgraded the engineers

and then i won.

Raccoon316's Method:

follow what i did, and the heli pilot is yours:

1.) DO NOT fix the heli pilot for the first few rounds, instead, get a dart monkey at both entrances of the track, and make sure to get a sniper to 1/2

2.) continue to place dart monkeys, and ninja monkeys around the heli

3.) get about 3 more snipers, and the heli pilot is now yours!

this worked well for me, i had somewhere around 75-50 lives left...

Strategy by Anonymous 1
Whenever the highest ranking bloon isn't a blimp, spamming 2-3 Dart and 2-2 Wizard almost always works.

Strategy by Anonymous 2
First get 2 enhanced eyesight triple dart monkeys in the front and back, lets say oh! what are you gonna do with lead? put 1 corrosive glue (or bloon dissolver or if your darn rich), then lets say a regrow ceramic comes place a lightning bolt and monkey sense (just incase) and then repair the heli pilot and get quad dart and downdraft now you are done

Strategy by Epical
Spam triple darts as much as you could with 2 wizards to take care of the leads. Don't repair heli, because a heli is worth as much as a triple dart and its popping power is worse. Spam them near the two entrances and you're done.

Trivia

 * After players defeat this mission, a hole will still be visible where the Heli Pilot crashed.
 * Players can upgrade the Heli Pilot to any upgrade in this mission.
 * A map with the same name is found in SAS 4, added with the Contracts update.
 * A special mission in Bloons Tower Defense 5, Protect Monkey Town, has a similar map.
 * This mission is one of the easiest Special Missions that involves the BMC-Mobile-exclusive towers.
 * There is a very rare bug which will cause the bought Heli Pilot to move at hyperspeed, making the mission very easy. However, there is a chance of the game crashing afterwards.
 * Peculiarly, the Hell Pilot can be seen smiling at the Crash Site tile despite having crashed his helicopter.