Issues with removing a child node

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I'm having some strange issues with removing a child node when changing scenes and I'll try to explain what's happening because I really have no clue what is going on.
I have a planet and a rocketship that can fly around. Whenever you touch down on the planet, it calls a change scene function on a singleton script:

func change_scene(scene):
player.get_parent().remove_child(player)
    get_tree().change_scene(scene)

The player has to be removed so that I can add him back in to the new scene. This works great if, and only if, you land on the bottom of the planet. Land near the north pole, and I get a crash and error message "Attempt to call function 'removechild' in base 'nullinstance' on a null instance." There should be no null instances involved, I have the console print out both player and player.get_parent() and they are both nodes. I can provide a project file if it helps because this is really peculiar.

in Engine by (67 points)

Have you tried stepping through the code with breakpoints in that particular case?
Not that proficient at debugging myself but a quick YouTube search got me this, best of luck!

by (27 points)

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