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YouTuber who staged plane crash faces up to 20 years jail: US officials

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  Huw GRIFFITH
  May 11, 2023 at 8:13 PM·3 min read
  Trevor Jacob staged a dramatic plane crash that saw him bail out high
  over Southern California in a bid to garner viewers (BUTTON)
  Trevor Jacob staged a dramatic plane crash that saw him bail out high
  over Southern California in a bid to garner viewers

  A YouTuber pilot who bailed out midair and deliberately sent his plane
  crashing into the ground to bolster viewing numbers on his channel
  could be jailed for up to 20 years, US authorities said Thursday.

  In a video seen by nearly three million people and entitled "I crashed
  my airplane," Trevor Jacob appears to experience engine trouble while
  flying over southern California in November 2021.

  The dramatic footage shows Jacob, 29, ejecting from the single engine
  plane -- selfie-stick in hand -- and parachuting into the dense
  vegetation of the Los Padres National Forest.

  Cameras placed all over the aircraft show its out-of-control descent
  into the forest, and its eventual crash landing.

  Jacob films himself hiking to the wreckage where he appears dismayed to
  discover the water he packed has disappeared.

  Viewers see him bush-whacking through poison oak and over hills as he
  seemingly struggles to find civilization, giving regular updates about
  how thirsty he is, and how lost he feels.

  Finally he stops to scoop water from a stream, and moments later comes
  across a vehicle and apparent salvation as night falls.

  In the weeks after the incident, investigators from the National
  Transportation Safety Board and the Federal Aviation Administration
  (FAA) launched a probe into the crash, and Jacob was ordered to
  preserve the wreckage.

  The YouTuber told officials he did not know where the plane had gone
  down, but, according to a plea deal lodged in Los Angeles, two weeks
  after the drama he and a friend winched the wreckage out of the forest
  with a helicopter, having earlier recovered data from the onboard
  cameras.

  Over the next few days, he cut up the plane into small pieces, and
  dumped the parts in trash bins in and around Lompoc City Airport.

  The FAA, the body that regulates flying in the United States, yanked
  Jacob's pilot's license in April 2022.

  In a plea agreement, Jacob admitted he had intended to obstruct federal
  authorities when he disposed of the wreckage, and had created the video
  to make money through a sponsorship with a wallet company.
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  "Jacob further admitted he lied to federal investigators when he
  submitted an aircraft accident incident report that falsely indicated
  that the aircraft experienced a full loss of power approximately 35
  minutes after takeoff," a statement from the Department of Justice
  said.

  "Jacob also lied to an FAA aviation safety inspector when he said the
  airplane's engine had quit and, because he could not identify any safe
  landing options, he had parachuted out of the plane."

  He has agreed to plead guilty to one count of destruction and
  concealment with the intent to obstruct a federal investigation, a
  crime that carries a statutory maximum sentence of 20 years in federal
  prison.

  The YouTuber is expected to formally enter his plea in Los Angeles in
  the coming weeks, and be sentenced at a later date.

  The video he posted, which can be seen here:
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vbYszLNZxhM attracted a lot of
  criticism in the weeks and months after it was published.

  Numerous pilots and aviation experts commented that Jacob had failed to
  take even elementary steps to restart his plane's apparently troubled
  engine.

  Others pointed out that he could easily have safely glided the plane to
  a landing spot, and that wearing a parachute while flying a small
  aircraft was highly unusual.

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