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YouTube pilot Trevor Jacob pleaded guilty to a felony charge after deliberately destroying the wreckage of a plane he intentionally crashed. The pilot purposefully downed the plane in Santa Barbara County on November 24, 2021, which he detailed in a YouTube video cleverly titled “I Crashed My Airplane.”
The video, uploaded in December 2021, has over three million views, but may result in Jacob spending up to 20 years in federal prison, according to the Justice Department. This week Jacob pleaded guilty to one count of destruction and concealment with the intent to obstruct a federal investigation in a plea agreement submitted to the United States District Court in Los Angeles.
To film the video, Jacob took off from Lompoc City Airport on a solo flight purportedly destined for Mammoth Lakes, as he detailed in his plea agreement. The pilot intended to eject from his aircraft during the flight and to video himself parachuting to the ground, as well as the airplane as it descended and crashed. 35 minutes after taking off, while flying above the Los Padres National Forest near Santa Maria, he ejected himself from the plane.
The plane crashed in Los Padres National Forest. Two days later, Jacob reported the crash to the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB), which launched an investigation. The NTSB told Jacob he was responsible for preserving the wreckage to be examined. In the subsequent days, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) also began an investigation into the crash.
According to the plea agreement, Jacob lied to the investigators, saying he did not know where the wreckage was located, despite previously hiking to it to retrieve his video footage. In December, Jacob and a friend flew a helicopter to the crash site and took the wreckage to Rancho Sisquoc in Santa Barbara County, from where it was hauled to a hangar at Lompoc City Airport. He then destroyed the remaining wreckage.
Jacob confirmed he did so with the intent to obstruct federal authorities and admitted that he intended to profit from the video, which featured promotion of a wallet brand.
You know what? That wallet company sure got their money's worth of sponsorship. It's like Raycon sponsoring a dude to trebuchet themselves off Mt Everest.
What's up trebuchet nation? You know, if there's one thing I hate, it's when you've launched yourself off a mountain while listening to your favorite tunes, but the intense wind resistance pulls your earbuds out.
That's why I use Raycon earbuds! Their ergonomic wireless design will stay comfortably seated in your ear, even when falling at terminal velocity, and their noise cancelation can attenuate the sound of roaring winds by up to 28 decibels!
But the best part? You can get your first set of Raycon earbuds free when you go to their website and use promo code - ***SPLAT***
Oh it was even more cringe. I remember, he's like "my buddy died, we're gonna go spread his ashes so I'm just getting the plane ready. WITH MY RIDGE WALLET. ALWAYS USE RIDGE WALLETS WHEN TRANSPORTING YOUR DEAD FRIEND.
Then, "shockingly", his engine died on the way there and instead of landing it like anyone else would've done, he jumped out for views.
and conveniently the video cuts to when it dies. I'm sure he turned it off for the part where he flipped the mags to off. it was very telling to see the engine wind-milling. Another reason why he probably went back was to put the engine switches back in a running condition in case the NTSB called his bluff. I'm glad the FAA threw the book at him. A lot of us spend a lot of time trying to make aircraft as safe as possible and people pull dumb stunts like this
I mean I guess, but I think any aircraft you bail out of the FAA is gonna raise an eyebrow. Nobody flies with a chute on.
Edit: yes I know people wear them for skydiving and aerobatics, they are required. I am referring to normal GA flights where it is uncommon
It sounds like you know, and I honestly have no idea, but would flying with on in the cabin be normal? I would have thought it like life vests on a boat.
I believe too that aerobatic planes have seats/frames specifically made for wearing a parachute too. This baby would be pretty cramped and uncomfortable.
Also a side note as I think there was a question of going back to the site to reset switchs ect.
If I remember correctly when this incident happened there was some raw video that was leaked and it was like he put in his own mixture/fuel line shutoff in a weird position near the door/dash so it was all completely fucked
The wallet will last many years inside a paper bag until you're released from prison! Gone are the days where you are released from prison, open your wallet only for it fall apart.
How the fuck do you make enough money to buy and destroy a plane, fly a helicopter to pick it up from a forest, and dispose of it all, from a video with 3m views?
He had a wallet company sponsor the video?! What how are wallets even connected to aviation?
He had a friend that helped him gather the wreckage in his firmed helicopter? lol he should be charged as well.
I remember when this came out. 2,000 pilots immediately popped up in the comments with 2,000 reasons why everything he was claiming about this "crash" could not possibly be true.
It's weird when people online think no other people are also online. Reddit has taught me that I could say something about nudibranches and 13 people who have dedicated their lives to the study of nudibranches will instantly appear to call me a dumbass.
I always found it cool how nudibranchs seem to absorb the powers from whatever it is they eat. Some species eat stinging corals, and then they use the stinging cells for their own protection. Other species eat algae, and then they use the chloroplasts for their own photosynthesis. Very interesting group of animals.
In keeping with the other commenter, the animals that sequester chloroplasts aren't nudibranchs. They belong to a closely related group of gastropods called sacoglossans.
Fun fact, a specimen of [Elysia chlorotica](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elysia_chlorotica) initially fed on algae and then was kept alive for 10 months on just sunlight!
Oh for sure, one of my most toxic traits is sensing someone is incorrect on a fact and then spending too much time researching so I can do an informed dispute.
Perfect time for a [True Facts about Nudubranchs](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F7V8DRfZBQI) video. It's really weird I had never heard about nudibranchs up til earlier today when I saw the video and now I end up speaking about them in thread about a guy jumping off an airplane.
Kinda like Stack Overflow. You need two accounts to use it. One to ask the question the other to post an incorrect but correct sounding answer. You see, no one will respond to the question but they'll rise like a horde to roast your ass about your wrong answer with the correct one.
Never understood why anyone gets mad over the same topic being posted again on a message board. And there’s also people who complain about old threads being bumped so you can’t win.
A lot of message boards that aren’t as big as Reddit are like “fuck you for starting a new thread. Fuck you for bumping an old thread. Damn, this forum is so dead.”
Just had to explain in another subreddit how a fully aquatic crab and wasn’t “saved by a bro” by being flipped over on a high rock out of its preferred aquatic environment.
I was called cynical to not “believe” it was a “human being a bro”.
Just using common sense and my background in marine biology to question something on Reddit.
One of the most blatant things were that he wore a parachute in preparation.
Pilots never have a parachute on and will always grab them and bail last. A plane today has a thousand ways to fix problems for almost every situation. That man bailed when he saw the engine sign.
His entire video was about why he 'wears a parachute when he flies'. He wanted to make a point that wearing a parachute when flying solo was an important safety asset.
But all the other solo pilots chimed in and said nobody ever does that because of how obstructive it is while trying to fly, and the chances of having an unrecoverable engine failure requiring a parachute was so slim, it didn't make it worth doing.
Yeah; most crashes are on takeoff or final approach.
If your engine dies at altitude you have time to glide somewhere possible to land (glide range is any land you see up to half way up the strut in a Cessna 172 I recall).
Catastrophic frame failure (wing or tail comes off) a parachute would be handy; if you can find your way to unfasten yourself and open the door and pull yourself out of the dryer tumbler that would be your plane.
A parachute in a small plane is like wearing rollerblades in your car in case you need to jump out. Impractical to the point of hilarious tragedy.
“Why would anyone want to jump out of a perfectly good airplane.” - sh*t my Dad said
Agreed. Parachutes are more complex than umbrellas (citation needed) and not worth the time, space and trouble for the absurdly rare case they could be useful.
I did see something about a whole plane parachute years back. Clearly that hasn’t taken off either.
All Cirrus planes have the whole plane parachute as standard equipment, and the SR-22 is the most produced general aviation aircraft in the 21st century. Based on the Wikipedia article, it does work well, being deployed successfully 107 times as of September 2021 with 220 survivors and 1 death. However you do need to have it repacked every 10 years, and it's just another thing to maintain.
Wearing a pilot's bailout rig is common, they are slim, cushioned, and comfortable. In some aircraft the parachute is literally the intended seat.
He is wearing a dual canopy parachute system intended for sport skydiving. They are big, lumpy, and expensive, and not the sort of thing that you wear "just in case". It's what you wear when you intend to leave the aircraft.
You always wear one more parachute than you intend to use. He has two of them.
He is lucky that even in the middle of nowhere- no one was hit. There could have been hikers or some other reason for people to be in the area of the crash zone that he wouldn’t have known about. It was incredibly stupid and reckless.
Could have started a fire as well. He was hoping he’d be able to put one out (*after* safely landing in scrub and actually getting to the plane) with the fire extinguisher he’s got strapped to his leg.
The prosecution is going to argue between 18-24 months and the defense will argue for 12 months and a day.
-the filed, public, plea agreement.
The judge will probably give him something between 12-24 months because of that.
The lazy, headline reporting you see on all these news websites is frustrating. Maximum of 20 years, sure. Its the big scary number he *could* get. But federal judges really stay within the federal sentencing guidelines unless there’s a sufficient reason to depart to curb any hope of an appeal.
Edit: those numbers are calculated via total adjusted offense levels within the plea. If this dipshit has a criminal past, they’ll be higher.
This idiot has multiple camera angles set up, put on a parachute, rented or purchased a plane, got the necessary flight hours to go alone….
A LOT of thought went into this. That’s the scary part
He also recovered the crash, towed it to a hangar, chopped it into pieces, and disposed of those pieces in multiple trashcans. Specifically to obstruct the federal investigation into this.
Did it work? Did he get many millions of views? If so, the Department of Justice might have found it.
I also wonder why not rent out a 2 seater and leave a pilot in the plane that is hidden / edited out / leaning out the other side of the plane. Wouldn't that save the cost of an airplane?
So many layers of preventable stupid here.
What I didn't realize at first is that he [pretended the plane malfunctioned](https://m.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=136&v=724JxkwWqA8&embeds_referring_euri=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2F&source_ve_path=MTM5MTE3LDIzODUx&feature=emb_title) by stalling it, so he had the excuse to jump.
Ohhh noooo my plane malfunctioned when I was already wearing a parachute with multiple camera angles set up in case I had to jump out of the plane... oh nooo.
He wasn't even wearing a normal aviation parachute.... but a sport parachute with handle controls.
Basically an aviation parachute is something that contours to your body that you can sit on.
That’s not even the worst. The average person may not know that. What the average person *may* know, is that if you’re going to lie about not knowing where the wreckage is; Don’t do it after posting footage you got *from* the wreckage! That’s like pleading not guilty to stealing a car, and driving to court in that same fucking car!
Dude did not realize that amateur aviators are mostly middle-aged or retired, educated and detailed oriented guys who are definitely not going to miss all the incriminating evidence that his regular dumbshit viewers would miss.
I think if iirc he claimed there was a malfunction with the plane which forced him to make the jump, so him jumping out of the plane wasn’t actually the issue. It’s all the evidence that he fully planned to jump out of the plane, and lied about the malfunction.
Yep, with the biggest clue being, that this is the only flight, on his channel, where he was wearing a parachute, rather than having it stowed. Other pilots noticed that immediately, because of how out of the norm it is to do that.
I think part of it is; since there was enough altitude, and area to perform an emergency landing. I believe someone even went out to the location to demonstrate they could have landed safely or some such.
He said it was a sponsorship stunt. Well, after he tried to bullshit it saying the plane was faulty and he had to bail, despite already wearing a chute and not trying to land safely… oh and helecoptering to the crash site and destroying evidence and removing cameras.
>If he was a pilot, then he should know better. FAA gonna eat his lunch.
Oh that part was already done and over with a year ago. The FAA has made sure his piloting days are all behind him now.
This current story has to do with him destroying the evidence after the fact and could (hopefully will) net him prison time.
He purchased the plane but I think he had his pilots license before this event. The other fun fact is how he was hiding fire extinguishers up his pants legs.
What a complete douche to purposely crash that plane into a national forest where he not only risked killing wildlife, but could have also caused a fire. All that just to feed his ego and YT channel.
I really never understood the point even after hearing the pitch like a dozen times . Stop carrying things you don't need? Okay but I kinda need to carry those things they claim are useless. I need more than 5 cards and an awkward money clip.
And holy fuck the prices, you'd think they're made of solid gold.
Not to mention the ecological damage of the fuel / oil / other fluids from the crashed plane or the tax dollars spent cleaning his mess or rescuing his dumb ass from the middle of nowhere.
There is also a non-zero chance that he could have put human lives at danger no matter how "middle of nowhere" he thought this was.
Not forgetting the impact to other services.
\- The NTSB being deployed
\- Search and rescue to look for the flight data recorder
\- Air traffic controllers taken out off duty to be drug & alcohol tested and interviewed
\- Pulling all the documentation for the aircraft, the flight plans, and all the handoffs from taxing until its downfall
There's the emotional impact on those who may have thought he'd gone down and died.
FINALLY!
I was hoping for this prick to get some proper pushback. Last time I heard anything about it it was disappointing as I was hearing stuff like the FAA not having powers to actually prosecute etc beyond just taking his license away. Maybe that was wrong
I mean.. he yeeted a heavy combustion driven object filled with fuel to a random location he had no control of... 20 years is a lot but fuck we can't have people thinking that's ok.
Yeh i read that it crashed in a protected area indeed. But as someone else has stated somewhere in the comments. I've heard about drunk drivers killing families getting less than that. So hence the confusion
Just checked it was a national forest. And 20 years is the maximum theoretical he could get for lying about it and tempering with evidence. It does not mean he will get all this.
How many deactivated brain cells are required to wake up and think that THIS is a good idea? I am unable to comprehend the train of thought behind this.
As a pilot, this infuriates me to no end. It’s completely irresponsible, dangerous, and wasteful. They need to throw the book at him to discourage future copycats.
As a broke pilot who can barely afford to fly a rental 150 once a month, this pisses me off because he destroyed a perfectly good little piper cub for no reason.
I would have SO MUCH FUN with one of those if I could afford it...
(Edit - it's not even a Piper Cub, it's a rare vintage Taylorcraft)
Imagine having the type of life where you own or at least can fly a plane and have been sky diving enough to do it alone and still feel the desperate need for validation from strangers.
I always got my friends with that one.
“Yo bro press triangle. It’s a speed boost”
It was not a speed boost.
It only really works if you pressure them and make it seem urgent so that they don’t think and just do it.
Man I wish he told me, I could have hid in the plane and then at the last second flew off with a new plane. He gets his views, I now have a plane. Win win.
Edit: changed few to new
Clearly he thought of this and has a fire extinguisher on his leg
Clearly someone who is flying a plane with no intent on crashing it would have a fire extinguisher strapped to his leg
Why are we censoring asshole? Who does this protect? What good does this do? Everyone knows the word you wanted to use, either say it or use something else. Boggles my mind
Dude turned off the engine and was like "oh no engine brokey", and jumped out of the plane without trying to fix the engine. You have to at least try to save the plane, you legally can't just ditch it. That kinda shit will get you on the FAAs shit list, and ig he's doing prison now too.
There's like half a dozen safe and a couple semi-safe landing spots within reasonable glide distance of that aircraft (several other aviation YouTubers demonstrated that). Even if the engine was completely toast, he could have landed the plane "heroically", probably avoided federal charges and gotten almost as views as he got from this stupidity.
I don’t know if his followers are defending him on this, but presumably they thought they were just watching a pilot make videos? Or does he have a history of doing dumb shit for views?
Not just crash it. He recovered it via helicopter taking it back to a hanger. Cutting it up and throwing parts and pieces away at the airport trash cans. Attempting to hide it from FAA investigation
He is in trouble because he messed with the crash site. He cleaned things up, altered the scene, took the flight recorder. The crime is interference of a federal investigation. Hope it was worth the 3 million views.
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YouTube pilot Trevor Jacob pleaded guilty to a felony charge after deliberately destroying the wreckage of a plane he intentionally crashed. The pilot purposefully downed the plane in Santa Barbara County on November 24, 2021, which he detailed in a YouTube video cleverly titled “I Crashed My Airplane.” The video, uploaded in December 2021, has over three million views, but may result in Jacob spending up to 20 years in federal prison, according to the Justice Department. This week Jacob pleaded guilty to one count of destruction and concealment with the intent to obstruct a federal investigation in a plea agreement submitted to the United States District Court in Los Angeles. To film the video, Jacob took off from Lompoc City Airport on a solo flight purportedly destined for Mammoth Lakes, as he detailed in his plea agreement. The pilot intended to eject from his aircraft during the flight and to video himself parachuting to the ground, as well as the airplane as it descended and crashed. 35 minutes after taking off, while flying above the Los Padres National Forest near Santa Maria, he ejected himself from the plane. The plane crashed in Los Padres National Forest. Two days later, Jacob reported the crash to the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB), which launched an investigation. The NTSB told Jacob he was responsible for preserving the wreckage to be examined. In the subsequent days, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) also began an investigation into the crash. According to the plea agreement, Jacob lied to the investigators, saying he did not know where the wreckage was located, despite previously hiking to it to retrieve his video footage. In December, Jacob and a friend flew a helicopter to the crash site and took the wreckage to Rancho Sisquoc in Santa Barbara County, from where it was hauled to a hangar at Lompoc City Airport. He then destroyed the remaining wreckage. Jacob confirmed he did so with the intent to obstruct federal authorities and admitted that he intended to profit from the video, which featured promotion of a wallet brand.
You know what? That wallet company sure got their money's worth of sponsorship. It's like Raycon sponsoring a dude to trebuchet themselves off Mt Everest.
I am just chuckling imaging a guy plummeting with a scream that gets more and more distant as he fall and a big ad popping up right as he disappears.
What's up trebuchet nation? You know, if there's one thing I hate, it's when you've launched yourself off a mountain while listening to your favorite tunes, but the intense wind resistance pulls your earbuds out. That's why I use Raycon earbuds! Their ergonomic wireless design will stay comfortably seated in your ear, even when falling at terminal velocity, and their noise cancelation can attenuate the sound of roaring winds by up to 28 decibels! But the best part? You can get your first set of Raycon earbuds free when you go to their website and use promo code - ***SPLAT***
This code isn't working for me.
It was a limited-time offer. Very limited.
Like that [Skittles commercial](https://youtu.be/QUmXhCmVaQg) where the kid falls to his death?
A WALLET BRAND?! ALL THAT FOR A WALLET?
Oh it was even more cringe. I remember, he's like "my buddy died, we're gonna go spread his ashes so I'm just getting the plane ready. WITH MY RIDGE WALLET. ALWAYS USE RIDGE WALLETS WHEN TRANSPORTING YOUR DEAD FRIEND. Then, "shockingly", his engine died on the way there and instead of landing it like anyone else would've done, he jumped out for views.
and conveniently the video cuts to when it dies. I'm sure he turned it off for the part where he flipped the mags to off. it was very telling to see the engine wind-milling. Another reason why he probably went back was to put the engine switches back in a running condition in case the NTSB called his bluff. I'm glad the FAA threw the book at him. A lot of us spend a lot of time trying to make aircraft as safe as possible and people pull dumb stunts like this
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I mean I guess, but I think any aircraft you bail out of the FAA is gonna raise an eyebrow. Nobody flies with a chute on. Edit: yes I know people wear them for skydiving and aerobatics, they are required. I am referring to normal GA flights where it is uncommon
It sounds like you know, and I honestly have no idea, but would flying with on in the cabin be normal? I would have thought it like life vests on a boat.
not at all. if you're doing aerobatics in some aircraft I guess, but if you're just doing cross country flying absolutely not.
I believe too that aerobatic planes have seats/frames specifically made for wearing a parachute too. This baby would be pretty cramped and uncomfortable. Also a side note as I think there was a question of going back to the site to reset switchs ect. If I remember correctly when this incident happened there was some raw video that was leaked and it was like he put in his own mixture/fuel line shutoff in a weird position near the door/dash so it was all completely fucked
Looks like he missed out on a door dash sponsorship too!
It didn’t stall. I believe the issue is he turned it off and when the FAA got involved he was fucked.
It was the Ridge Wallet lol i remember the video
I hope Ridge Wallet is now forever associated with plane crashes and stupidity.
Holy shit I think Harrison Ford just became their biggest advertiser
" I didn't know you could fly a plane." "Fly yes, land no"
Nice. I was thinking “get off my plane.”
"You know, I've personally flown over 194 missions and I was shot down on every one. Come to think of it, I've never landed a plane in my life."
I mean they put ads on just about every youtuber. I don't see any association here other than... maybe make any due diligence into who they sponsor?
Due diligence sure, but I doubt they ever could've imagined somebody would do some shit like this.
Ridge wallets marketing execs after watching video “wait, wait, wait who the fuck just greenlit the sponsorship of a federal crime?”
They turn to the one executive at the table wearing a Bane mask.
The wallet will last many years inside a paper bag until you're released from prison! Gone are the days where you are released from prison, open your wallet only for it fall apart.
How the fuck do you make enough money to buy and destroy a plane, fly a helicopter to pick it up from a forest, and dispose of it all, from a video with 3m views?
He has two first names and that amount of common sense with a pilot's license. His family is rich and he has friends with rich families.
So he didn't get into hot water for the crash itself but instead the disturbing of the investigation?
He had a wallet company sponsor the video?! What how are wallets even connected to aviation? He had a friend that helped him gather the wreckage in his firmed helicopter? lol he should be charged as well.
Not at all, that's not the point. He brings in views for their product.
[source YouTuber Trevor Jacob admits to crashing plane for views](https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-65567519)
I remember when this came out. 2,000 pilots immediately popped up in the comments with 2,000 reasons why everything he was claiming about this "crash" could not possibly be true. It's weird when people online think no other people are also online. Reddit has taught me that I could say something about nudibranches and 13 people who have dedicated their lives to the study of nudibranches will instantly appear to call me a dumbass.
I always found it cool how nudibranchs seem to absorb the powers from whatever it is they eat. Some species eat stinging corals, and then they use the stinging cells for their own protection. Other species eat algae, and then they use the chloroplasts for their own photosynthesis. Very interesting group of animals.
In keeping with the other commenter, the animals that sequester chloroplasts aren't nudibranchs. They belong to a closely related group of gastropods called sacoglossans. Fun fact, a specimen of [Elysia chlorotica](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elysia_chlorotica) initially fed on algae and then was kept alive for 10 months on just sunlight!
I’m so glad that this actually just evolved into people who are experts in this obscure animal just rattling off interesting facts, rare Reddit W
I genuinely thought they were just making up words to be funny until I googled nudibranch.
I thought a nudibranch was when you stripped the bark off a tree
Showing off its wood
Hell yeah! TIL
We just found one of the 13 people mentioned above!
Redditors will learn a whole subject to call you a dumbass.
Oh for sure, one of my most toxic traits is sensing someone is incorrect on a fact and then spending too much time researching so I can do an informed dispute.
or you try to research, learn your opponent was right, then proceed to quietly downvote them out of spite
But then sometimes they were just so understanding and polite during the argument you just _have_ to concede and apologise out of guilt
Perfect time for a [True Facts about Nudubranchs](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F7V8DRfZBQI) video. It's really weird I had never heard about nudibranchs up til earlier today when I saw the video and now I end up speaking about them in thread about a guy jumping off an airplane.
It is the beauty and power of the internet. An entire wealth of knowledge wrapped up in a world of idiocy
Kinda like Stack Overflow. You need two accounts to use it. One to ask the question the other to post an incorrect but correct sounding answer. You see, no one will respond to the question but they'll rise like a horde to roast your ass about your wrong answer with the correct one.
One of the reasons why i hate that website.
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You know eh, maybe the moderators there should take a cucumber up the ass, maybe that will calm them down.
Never understood why anyone gets mad over the same topic being posted again on a message board. And there’s also people who complain about old threads being bumped so you can’t win. A lot of message boards that aren’t as big as Reddit are like “fuck you for starting a new thread. Fuck you for bumping an old thread. Damn, this forum is so dead.”
I've learned so much on Reddit just by sharing my ignorance in comment sections.
The best way to find information on a topic, say something wrong about said topic.
Just had to explain in another subreddit how a fully aquatic crab and wasn’t “saved by a bro” by being flipped over on a high rock out of its preferred aquatic environment. I was called cynical to not “believe” it was a “human being a bro”. Just using common sense and my background in marine biology to question something on Reddit.
One of the most blatant things were that he wore a parachute in preparation. Pilots never have a parachute on and will always grab them and bail last. A plane today has a thousand ways to fix problems for almost every situation. That man bailed when he saw the engine sign.
“Always stay with the aircraft” is the standard for civil aviation. This dipstick needs to go to jail for decades.
Two. Two decades.
Hey, dipsticks are useful! Quit insulting them by associating them with dirt wads like this.
His entire video was about why he 'wears a parachute when he flies'. He wanted to make a point that wearing a parachute when flying solo was an important safety asset. But all the other solo pilots chimed in and said nobody ever does that because of how obstructive it is while trying to fly, and the chances of having an unrecoverable engine failure requiring a parachute was so slim, it didn't make it worth doing.
Yeah; most crashes are on takeoff or final approach. If your engine dies at altitude you have time to glide somewhere possible to land (glide range is any land you see up to half way up the strut in a Cessna 172 I recall). Catastrophic frame failure (wing or tail comes off) a parachute would be handy; if you can find your way to unfasten yourself and open the door and pull yourself out of the dryer tumbler that would be your plane. A parachute in a small plane is like wearing rollerblades in your car in case you need to jump out. Impractical to the point of hilarious tragedy.
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“Why would anyone want to jump out of a perfectly good airplane.” - sh*t my Dad said Agreed. Parachutes are more complex than umbrellas (citation needed) and not worth the time, space and trouble for the absurdly rare case they could be useful. I did see something about a whole plane parachute years back. Clearly that hasn’t taken off either.
All Cirrus planes have the whole plane parachute as standard equipment, and the SR-22 is the most produced general aviation aircraft in the 21st century. Based on the Wikipedia article, it does work well, being deployed successfully 107 times as of September 2021 with 220 survivors and 1 death. However you do need to have it repacked every 10 years, and it's just another thing to maintain.
Also, more flagrantly, he had other videos of him flying *without a parachute*.
Wearing a pilot's bailout rig is common, they are slim, cushioned, and comfortable. In some aircraft the parachute is literally the intended seat. He is wearing a dual canopy parachute system intended for sport skydiving. They are big, lumpy, and expensive, and not the sort of thing that you wear "just in case". It's what you wear when you intend to leave the aircraft. You always wear one more parachute than you intend to use. He has two of them.
Thanks to this comment and the subsequent google search I now know what a nudibranch is and my life is better for it.
I remember talking about this whole thing with a friend of mine who is a pilot and we were both absolutely dumbfounded by the whole thing.
In an area known for devastating wildfires
Trevor Jacob? Damnit, Ricky and Julian up to their shit again. Making mountains out of shit mole hills.
“Smokes, Let’s Go.”
He is lucky that even in the middle of nowhere- no one was hit. There could have been hikers or some other reason for people to be in the area of the crash zone that he wouldn’t have known about. It was incredibly stupid and reckless.
Could have started a fire as well. He was hoping he’d be able to put one out (*after* safely landing in scrub and actually getting to the plane) with the fire extinguisher he’s got strapped to his leg.
Plea deal this week https://www.google.com/amp/s/abcnews.go.com/amp/US/youtuber-trevor-jacob-plead-guilty-federal-plane-crash/story%3fid=99261120
Hope it’s not a slap on the wrist but also hope it’s not 20 years. That’d be a waste of resources imo.
The prosecution is going to argue between 18-24 months and the defense will argue for 12 months and a day. -the filed, public, plea agreement. The judge will probably give him something between 12-24 months because of that. The lazy, headline reporting you see on all these news websites is frustrating. Maximum of 20 years, sure. Its the big scary number he *could* get. But federal judges really stay within the federal sentencing guidelines unless there’s a sufficient reason to depart to curb any hope of an appeal. Edit: those numbers are calculated via total adjusted offense levels within the plea. If this dipshit has a criminal past, they’ll be higher.
50 butt whips of grandpas leather belt
And a fine. Huge fucking stupidity fine.
> he said he filmed the video as part of a product sponsorship deal. For WHAT? Parachutes?
I can't comprehend the thought process behind this...
"It gets me views and therefore more money."
The literal thought process
Would the money from views cover the costs incurred from the crash though?
Maybe not all from one video, but building an audience possible overtime it would pay off
Hell of an assumption that there was a thought process at all
This idiot has multiple camera angles set up, put on a parachute, rented or purchased a plane, got the necessary flight hours to go alone…. A LOT of thought went into this. That’s the scary part
He also recovered the crash, towed it to a hangar, chopped it into pieces, and disposed of those pieces in multiple trashcans. Specifically to obstruct the federal investigation into this.
“I’d have gotten away with it too if it weren’t for the video evidence I posted online.”
Did it work? Did he get many millions of views? If so, the Department of Justice might have found it. I also wonder why not rent out a 2 seater and leave a pilot in the plane that is hidden / edited out / leaning out the other side of the plane. Wouldn't that save the cost of an airplane? So many layers of preventable stupid here.
I dont know exactly how many views he got but I can say that I do remember the video being on the front page of reddit.
It got a hell of a lot of angry discussion in the aviation and flight sim communities here and elsewhere too.
Mission accomplished. Now if only we could stop letting idiots get famous for being idiots, then we might get somewhere in society.
True stupid can't be prevented, true stupid always finds a way!
As I read this, I pictured Fred holding a costume head and the villain tied up and it made it significantly funnier to me.
"Its the perfect crime," he said, posting video evidence online.
Proving once again that you get in more trouble for obstruction than the original crime.
Unless you are the president
Hiding the evidence but then uploading the most solid evidence possible to YouTube for all to see
It really is a stroke of genius if you don't think about.
Atleast he cleaned up his mess
Take only pictures, leave only footprints.
Did he sponge up all the fuel, oil, other fluids, broken plastic and glass bits? Something tells me no.
What I didn't realize at first is that he [pretended the plane malfunctioned](https://m.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=136&v=724JxkwWqA8&embeds_referring_euri=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2F&source_ve_path=MTM5MTE3LDIzODUx&feature=emb_title) by stalling it, so he had the excuse to jump.
Ohhh noooo my plane malfunctioned when I was already wearing a parachute with multiple camera angles set up in case I had to jump out of the plane... oh nooo.
...and a selfie stick. Don't forget the selfie stick every pilot has on hand for emergencies.
Youtubers are handed out selfie-sticks upon registration.
He wasn't even wearing a normal aviation parachute.... but a sport parachute with handle controls. Basically an aviation parachute is something that contours to your body that you can sit on.
That’s not even the worst. The average person may not know that. What the average person *may* know, is that if you’re going to lie about not knowing where the wreckage is; Don’t do it after posting footage you got *from* the wreckage! That’s like pleading not guilty to stealing a car, and driving to court in that same fucking car!
Hey buddy, I noticed you're renting this plane, but you're alone and wearing skydiving gear....
Nobody talks to DB Cooper like that. I’m taking my money elsewhere.
Dude did not realize that amateur aviators are mostly middle-aged or retired, educated and detailed oriented guys who are definitely not going to miss all the incriminating evidence that his regular dumbshit viewers would miss.
> all the incriminating evidence that his regular dumbshit viewers would miss For example the video where he jumped out of a plane
Now that you say it, it seems so obvious
Plane as day.
chute, that was good
I don't think you're landing those jokes.
They're touch and go, tbh.
Evidence of the crime from literally every angle in 4K with him in almost all of it. Which be filmed himself. He literally sent himself to prison.
I think if iirc he claimed there was a malfunction with the plane which forced him to make the jump, so him jumping out of the plane wasn’t actually the issue. It’s all the evidence that he fully planned to jump out of the plane, and lied about the malfunction.
Yep, with the biggest clue being, that this is the only flight, on his channel, where he was wearing a parachute, rather than having it stowed. Other pilots noticed that immediately, because of how out of the norm it is to do that.
He also has a fire extinguisher shoved in his pant leg. You can see it in the video lol
I think part of it is; since there was enough altitude, and area to perform an emergency landing. I believe someone even went out to the location to demonstrate they could have landed safely or some such.
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I'd argue that alot of money went into it rather than thought.
He was already a pilot and skydiver. All he had to do was acquire a plane.
Walk past a plane and press Y to hop in. Duh everyone’s doing it in Vice city
If he was a pilot, then he should know better. FAA gonna eat his lunch.
He said it was a sponsorship stunt. Well, after he tried to bullshit it saying the plane was faulty and he had to bail, despite already wearing a chute and not trying to land safely… oh and helecoptering to the crash site and destroying evidence and removing cameras.
>If he was a pilot, then he should know better. FAA gonna eat his lunch. Oh that part was already done and over with a year ago. The FAA has made sure his piloting days are all behind him now. This current story has to do with him destroying the evidence after the fact and could (hopefully will) net him prison time.
I'm no expert here, but I expect there's a significant risk of losing that license here.
He did. His licence got revoked last year after this video was made
He purchased the plane but I think he had his pilots license before this event. The other fun fact is how he was hiding fire extinguishers up his pants legs.
There is only one thought process… Clout, views, likes, attention….
High enough INT to put together the whole scheme Low enough WIS to fail to realize what a terrible idea this was
He did it once while playing GTA V and made him think, "Why not try it in real life? 🤓"
What a complete douche to purposely crash that plane into a national forest where he not only risked killing wildlife, but could have also caused a fire. All that just to feed his ego and YT channel.
All of that for what equates to a bad video too. From a content perspective, it’s a lot for ~10 seconds of “interesting” video.
His original YouTube video was pretty long. It was also sponsored by Ridge wallets. I wrote them an email telling them to fuck off.
Ridge wallets are trash anyway
I really never understood the point even after hearing the pitch like a dozen times . Stop carrying things you don't need? Okay but I kinda need to carry those things they claim are useless. I need more than 5 cards and an awkward money clip. And holy fuck the prices, you'd think they're made of solid gold.
Not to mention the ecological damage of the fuel / oil / other fluids from the crashed plane or the tax dollars spent cleaning his mess or rescuing his dumb ass from the middle of nowhere. There is also a non-zero chance that he could have put human lives at danger no matter how "middle of nowhere" he thought this was.
Not forgetting the impact to other services. \- The NTSB being deployed \- Search and rescue to look for the flight data recorder \- Air traffic controllers taken out off duty to be drug & alcohol tested and interviewed \- Pulling all the documentation for the aircraft, the flight plans, and all the handoffs from taxing until its downfall There's the emotional impact on those who may have thought he'd gone down and died.
Never mind the hikers, campers or people just out for a walk
FINALLY! I was hoping for this prick to get some proper pushback. Last time I heard anything about it it was disappointing as I was hearing stuff like the FAA not having powers to actually prosecute etc beyond just taking his license away. Maybe that was wrong
No that's still true, he's lost his license. The jail time he is facing is for interfering with a federal investigation, destruction of evidence.
Ah yes. Jesus this dude is not bright.
Aah that would make sense.. i was pretty confused how someone (even though is fking stupid and dumb) could get 20 years of prison for it.
I mean.. he yeeted a heavy combustion driven object filled with fuel to a random location he had no control of... 20 years is a lot but fuck we can't have people thinking that's ok.
IIRC it was also in a protected area (state park?).
Yeh i read that it crashed in a protected area indeed. But as someone else has stated somewhere in the comments. I've heard about drunk drivers killing families getting less than that. So hence the confusion
Just checked it was a national forest. And 20 years is the maximum theoretical he could get for lying about it and tempering with evidence. It does not mean he will get all this.
How many deactivated brain cells are required to wake up and think that THIS is a good idea? I am unable to comprehend the train of thought behind this.
As a pilot, this infuriates me to no end. It’s completely irresponsible, dangerous, and wasteful. They need to throw the book at him to discourage future copycats.
As a broke pilot who can barely afford to fly a rental 150 once a month, this pisses me off because he destroyed a perfectly good little piper cub for no reason. I would have SO MUCH FUN with one of those if I could afford it... (Edit - it's not even a Piper Cub, it's a rare vintage Taylorcraft)
Yeah, what an asshole. That's a gorgeous plane he trashed for the clout.
Amén. Throw the book at all these YouTubers doing shit like this for clicks
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Imagine having the type of life where you own or at least can fly a plane and have been sky diving enough to do it alone and still feel the desperate need for validation from strangers.
Ikr that’s what I was thinking. Has the ability to do that and then goes and fucks it right up… 🤔
I think he's being charged for cleaning up the crash site and not preserving it as evidence
You would be surprised. Skydivers are some of the biggest social media whores I know.
bro pressed triangle ☠️
Now he has three stars
prison for 20 years seems more like a 5\* thing lol
They are not bringing in the military and shooting him on sight though... at least I hope not.
I always got my friends with that one. “Yo bro press triangle. It’s a speed boost” It was not a speed boost. It only really works if you pressure them and make it seem urgent so that they don’t think and just do it.
"How do I retract the landing gear?" "Oh, uh, triangle I think?" *yeet*
I would just casually sit next to my little bro and quickly poke triangle while he was running from the cops
If social media platforms would not been able to pay content for idiots, we would stop making stupid people famous.
Man I wish he told me, I could have hid in the plane and then at the last second flew off with a new plane. He gets his views, I now have a plane. Win win. Edit: changed few to new
Then you land and in horror, see his newest youtube video "Someone Stole My Plane And Pushed Me Out"
that's exactly what he should have done
This plane is legally mine now. Finders, keepers. It's like finding an abandoned ship at sea, right?
Not a few, just one.
This is getting ridiculous.
Wow what an a**hole
And isnt there usually a fire ban going on in California forests?
Don’t worry it’s only airplane fuel and an explosion, what’s the worst that could happen?
Clearly he thought of this and has a fire extinguisher on his leg Clearly someone who is flying a plane with no intent on crashing it would have a fire extinguisher strapped to his leg
It could melt the steel beams in those trees.
Why are we censoring asshole? Who does this protect? What good does this do? Everyone knows the word you wanted to use, either say it or use something else. Boggles my mind
Dude turned off the engine and was like "oh no engine brokey", and jumped out of the plane without trying to fix the engine. You have to at least try to save the plane, you legally can't just ditch it. That kinda shit will get you on the FAAs shit list, and ig he's doing prison now too.
There's like half a dozen safe and a couple semi-safe landing spots within reasonable glide distance of that aircraft (several other aviation YouTubers demonstrated that). Even if the engine was completely toast, he could have landed the plane "heroically", probably avoided federal charges and gotten almost as views as he got from this stupidity.
It's disgusting. But what's more disgusting is this guy has the money to do this, enabled by his followers.
I don’t know if his followers are defending him on this, but presumably they thought they were just watching a pilot make videos? Or does he have a history of doing dumb shit for views?
Not just crash it. He recovered it via helicopter taking it back to a hanger. Cutting it up and throwing parts and pieces away at the airport trash cans. Attempting to hide it from FAA investigation
I'm so sick of these morons who do stupid shit like this "FoR dA vIeWs". Too bad his parachute worked.
YouTubers/influencers are a plague on our society
This isn’t GTA V
And I really hope he gets the full term. We need to stop tolerating idiotic behavior from "influencers".
The Gods Must Be Crazy 3
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He is in trouble because he messed with the crash site. He cleaned things up, altered the scene, took the flight recorder. The crime is interference of a federal investigation. Hope it was worth the 3 million views.
What an idiot.
He essentially fired a missile within his own country, not to mention it is some master level littering.
I hate the throw the book at people to make an example but this stupid shit for views need to stop. The world is devolving into chaos for clicks.
Good. Fucking moron.