https://abc7.com/youtube-trevor-jaco...-faa/13236347/

“YouTuber Trevor Jacob has agreed to plead guilty to obstructing a federal investigation into a 2021 plane crash in California that the Federal Aviation Administration has claimed the pilot purposely caused, court documents show.

The charge -- destruction and concealment with the intent to obstruct a federal investigation -- carries up to a 20-year prison sentence. A plea agreement was filed on Wednesday, court records show. Jacob is expected to make his initial court appearance in a few weeks.

The crash occurred in November 2021 while Jacob flew over Los Padres National Forest. Jacob posted a 12-minute video of the crash to his YouTube channel that has received nearly 3 million views, according to the video's YouTube page.

Prosecutors claim that Jacob never planned on reaching his destination and that the plan was always to crash the plane, and that he lied to federal investigators about not knowing the crash location. Prosecutors claim he flew in a helicopter and hoisted the wreckage out of the remote area, then dismantled the aircraft with the goal of obstructing an investigation.

Jacob was also accused of lying to the FAA, which revoked his pilot's license last year over the crash.

In an April 2022 letter to Jacob regarding surrendering his private pilot's license, the FAA said the flight was "careless or reckless so as to endanger the life or property of another."

Jacob attached multiple cameras to the inside and outside of the plane and was wearing a sports parachute in a backpack during the flight, according to the FAA letter. The FAA claims Jacob opened the side door of the plane claiming the engine had failed.

The FAA noted that Jacob did not attempt to restart the engine, contact air traffic controllers about the problem or look for areas to land safely. The FAA said Jacob then jumped from the plane "while holding a camera attached to a selfie stick."

Also in the video, Jacob goes to the plane's wreckage and retrieves the cameras that were attached to the plane.

In the plea agreement, prosecutors claim that Jacob contacted a company to help him retrieve his plane, and that he and a friend flew in a helicopter to the crash site in the weeks following the incident and retrieved the wreckage. Jacob later reportedly told investigators that he was not aware of the plane's wreckage location, prosecutors said.

Prosecutors said that Jacob and his friend drove the wreckage to an airport and cut up and destroyed it "with the intent to impede and obstruct federal authorities," the plea agreement stated.

Prosecutors also claim that Jacob falsely told the FAA that the plane's engine had quit "in order to conceal the fact that he had purposefully abandoned his airplane in flight as part of his scheme to create a video to gain notoriety and to make money," the plea agreement stated.”



I hope this ph*ggot does get 20 years. Could’ve killed someone or started a forest fire.
This is what idiots do when they have too much money.

What makes someone go this retarded for attention, pathetic

Yup, that video really rustled some jimmies in the youtube aviation world.

Wish we had laws this strict for dumbass driving (harsher than what we have for DUI, distracted driving, literally fukking killing someone while on your phone gets a slap on wrist)

why?

He posted a yt of himself going to the wreckage recovering the cameras then lied about not knowing where the plane crashed?

I just can’t believe it…

Literal clout demon. More concerned with his views than the safety of anyone that could've been in the wreckage area.

Probably cause he was frauding for clout? I remember there were videos picking it apart saying he might've done something illegal


and in the comments

how is he only charged with Obstruction of Justice? You would think crashing a plane on purpose would carry more criminal charges

I wanna know what’s keep mark brown from aging

I’m guessing no one has ever been stupid enough to do that, so there isn’t a charge for it

He wanted attention. Mission accomplished.

I’m sure he’ll get plenty of attention from Tyrone and Jamal in the clink

i remember this. that plane could have ran into someone and killed them. lock that dumb **** up.

good

Been watching this story for a while, the stupidity people do for internet clout

Risking lives for something that advances society is one thing, but risking it for social media attention is beyond retarded

Hope he gets a long sentence

interesting

I dont know how or why, but Donald Rumsfield has something to do with this.

Dude deserves jail time. Even after it happened and people were calling him out on the blatant scam he maintained a smug af attitude.

maybe hes GMiscer

justice

Oh but it’s okay for the government to purposely crash planes into buildings.

I thought the same when I read this. If he hadn't tried to hide the crash, does this mean he'd have got off scot free after purposely jumping out of a plane and letting it crash for youtube views?

What does 3 million views translate too, $300? LMAO what a maroon.

but a doctor chopping off a childs cawk in washington on the daily walks free

probaby $3000+ for 3mln views, and over time. that would be 10mln+ views

lol at all the edge in here.


this guy gonna get every ounce of what he deserves.

They killed over 2000 people too

There was a similar story of some tiktoker who ended in ICU and lost half his face in some stunt to get attention on social media. It happened late last month.

not sure if srs

even famous aviation youtubers ripped his *** and for good reason. i mean, every single avi channel i knew did videos on him. i know blancolirio specifically did a video about this jackwaggon and for a few months he was the sole point of ridicule in the aviation world and hopefully will be for the rest of his life.

its kind of glorious though how from now on, in aviation-speak, if you ever want to drive home a point to not do something, all you have to do is say "dont pull a trevor jacobs."

as another miscer said, he could have killed someone, started a forest fire or something else.