This idiot.... staged a plane crash for youtube views

[DBFlyguy]

This is a special kind of idiot... I hope the FAA pulls his ticket and he gets jail time. ?

 

 

[BMA_FlyingShark]

30 minutes ago, DBFlyguy said:

I hope the FAA pulls his ticket and he gets jail time.

Couldn't agree with you more.

Some town must definitely be missing its fool.

 

Hans a nice day.

 

[Lusekofte]

I am no pilot, but as I see it he handled it like he had panic. But still was calm enough to film the whole thing. 

No radiocommunication no attempts to start the engine. Just engine stop, then bail out. 

So I agree, it look like planned. 

But what is the gain?

[jollyjack]

April fools, it's a MS flightsim scene ..

[Monostripezebra]

That looks fishy...

 

 

And lots of people with questions

 

[ZachariasX]

29 minutes ago, Monostripezebra said:

That looks fishy...

Just skipping through the vid and there is no plane registration number on the airframe visible. That is enough of a red flag.

[Monostripezebra]

1 hour ago, ZachariasX said:

Just skipping through the vid and there is no plane registration number on the airframe visible. That is enough of a red flag.

 

The plane was N29508, and really was destroyed.. but there are a lot of doubts on wether it was a genuine accident or a deliberate stunt for fame and social media clicks.

 

AV Web reports the FAA is looking at the case.

Edited January 2, 2022 by Monostripezebra

[LukeFF]

 

[Bremspropeller]

Next time this dude is jumping from an airplane, he needs to make sure he's doing it argentinian-style.

[Charlo-VR]

Just like the video commenter, I am surprised that pilot would wear a sport jumping skydiving rig rather than a pilot’s emergency parachute rig, to sit much more comfortably in such a small cockpit. Of course, a pilot’s emergency rig only has one canopy.  Good anticipation on his part to wear his sport jumping rig.

 

Also, before hiking from an off-field landing like that, an experienced skydiver would pack his or her parachute to protect it from UV light and snagging on branches, etc., and to carry it out much more easily (if they are carrying out their rig at all - it would depend upon the anticipated length of the hike to safety. A sport rig with a main and reserve canopy weighs about 25 lbs.)
 

If I was genuinely concerned about making it to safety, I’d disconnect my main canopy from my rig, stash my rig in the shade and off the ground someplace I could find it later, and use the main as sun protection and to be clearly visible by rescuers (my main is colored like Ernst Udet’s Fokker DVII, so would be easily visible).

[Jaws2002]

Morons will do everything for clicks this days. He was flying really high, so he could have turned around and found a spot to land the plane. 

 

in an emergency first thing pilots do is look for a place to put it down, while attempting to restart the engine and calling an emergency. He just wanted to jump.

 

FAA should throw the book at this scumbag.

Edited January 3, 2022 by Jaws2002

[J2_Trupobaw]

@Monostripezebra used to do it every month...

[Monostripezebra]

As someone on reddit pointed out.. he even tried to sneak out the fire extinguisher unter his trousers in case of impact fire..

How dumb can you be.. thinking in that case some 6 gallons of fuel on dry brush would be fightable with that tiny kitchen appliance..

Edited January 13, 2022 by Monostripezebra

[Feathered_IV]

Has he been identified yet?  I’m wondering if the authorities are looking for him at this stage. 

[Charlo-VR]

36 minutes ago, Feathered_IV said:

Has he been identified yet?  I’m wondering if the authorities are looking for him at this stage. 

Yes, and probably yes - more discussion about this in another thread:

 

[J2_Bidu]

How did he get the footage from the wing cam after he jumped?

[Monostripezebra]

1 hour ago, J2_Bidu said:

How did he get the footage from the wing cam after he jumped?

 

Well, from his video it becomes clear he skydived as much as he could to stay close to the plane and pulled the chute quite late and instead of chosing a safe landing site, he went down in the brush relatively close, made his way to the plane, fillmed all this way with exaggerations of survival challenges and then took the cameras from the plane under the pretext of looking for his waterbottle or so..

[Avimimus]

Yeah, but taking the cameras from the plane under the pretext of looking for waterbottles doesn't make any sense if you include the footage from those cameras in your video, right?

[69th_Mobile_BBQ]

On 12/25/2021 at 8:23 AM, LuseKofte said:

But what is the gain?

 

Monotized YouTube videos = residual income.  It might only be a few cents per view, but if you have the coin going into an interest-bearing account for (potentially) life, it really adds up. 

[TheBlackPenguin]

It will be awhile before charges are set, at a minimum I would expect his license to be pulled. He could also get into even deeper trouble, including potential jail time, if he crashed that plane in a National Forest.

[messsucher]

Ex army dude?

[LLv34_Flanker]

S! 

 

Idiocy is an in infinite supply. 

[IckyATLAS]

I do not know if it is true, fake, staged stunt or whatever. Everything can be faked, sound, images, videos to a point that we cannot make the difference. But if it is a true then as a pilot let me tell you: this guy is not a pilot. He is a disgrace for the pilot community. Shame on him.

[BornToBattle]

Wish I had that kind of money to throw around.

 

”I’m bored. Think I’ll strap multiple cams on, go fire up my plane, then jump out while it crashes.”

 

Just…wow…

[Ace_Pilto]

Idiot, the footage would have got more views if he'd stayed in it.

[Lusekofte]

His licence is no revoked

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/20/us/trevor-jacob-youtube-plane-crash.html

[Lusekofte]

 

[Jaws2002]

6 hours ago, LuseKofte said:

 

 

 

I remember that plane in the  background. he used to fly with Mike Patey. I've watched a few videos about Mike's "Draco" on his channel.

 

 

I don't think this is the guy who jumped from the plane.

Edited April 29, 2022 by Jaws2002

[LukeFF]

And now he's facing 20 years in the clink: https://www.justice.gov/usao-cdca/pr/santa-barbara-county-man-who-deliberately-crashed-airplane-youtube-video-admits

 

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Jacob drove the wreckage to Lompoc City Airport and unloaded it in a hangar. He then cut up and destroyed the airplane wreckage and, over the course of a few days, deposited the detached parts of the wrecked airplane into trash bins at the airport and elsewhere, which he admitted in his plea agreement was done with the intent to obstruct federal authorities from investigating the November 24 plane crash.