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California man admits to deliberately crashing plane to get YouTube views
ktla ^ | by: Marc Sternfield

Posted on 05/11/2023 2:08:31 PM PDT by BenLurkin

With multiple camera shots and slick editing, Trevor Jacob documented the dramatic moments when his small plane crashed into a Santa Barbara County hillside as he parachuted to safety.

The 2021 video titled, “I Crashed My Airplane,” quickly amassed hundreds of thousands of views on YouTube.

The only problem: it was all staged.

On Wednesday, Jacob, 29, pleaded guilty to a felony charge of obstructing a federal investigation after admitting to intentionally crashing the plane to get views on his YouTube channel, the United States Department of Justice announced. He faces up to 20 years in federal prison.

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1 posted on 05/11/2023 2:08:31 PM PDT by BenLurkin
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To: BenLurkin

I’ll repeat what I said yesterday: we’ve bred an entire generation of narcissistic sociopaths. Getting “views” or notoriety is more important than being virtuous or ethical.


2 posted on 05/11/2023 2:09:45 PM PDT by rarestia (“A nation which can prefer disgrace to danger is prepared for a master, and deserves one.” -Hamilton)
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To: BenLurkin

It was incredibly stupid of Trevor Jacob to do what he did, but 20 years?

It was so obviously staged from the get-go, lol.


3 posted on 05/11/2023 2:11:24 PM PDT by HerrBlucher
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To: BenLurkin

I guess he hadn’t gotten around to moving to Florida.


4 posted on 05/11/2023 2:14:11 PM PDT by Hillarys Gate Cult (I stayed drug - free going on 63 years for this?)
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To: rarestia

YouTube is full of phoney staged videos posted by people who want enough views,etc., to get to the point they can get money.


5 posted on 05/11/2023 2:14:24 PM PDT by ManardG
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To: HerrBlucher
It was incredibly stupid of Trevor Jacob to do what he did, but 20 years?

Deliberately destroying an aircraft carries a sentence of "not more than 20 years." https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/32

He also obstructed an investigation. That is a separate charge.

6 posted on 05/11/2023 2:23:24 PM PDT by IYAS9YAS (There are two kinds of people: Those who can extrapolate from incomplete data.)
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To: BenLurkin

18 U.S. Code § 32 - Destruction of aircraft or aircraft facilities states, in part:

(a)Whoever willfully—
(1)sets fire to, damages, destroys, disables, or wrecks any aircraft in the special aircraft jurisdiction of the United States or any civil aircraft used, operated, or employed in interstate, overseas, or foreign air commerce;

shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than twenty years, or both. There is jurisdiction over an offense under this subsection if a national of the United States was on board, or would have been on board, the aircraft; an offender is a national of the United States; or an offender is afterwards found in the United States. For purposes of this subsection, the term “national of the United States” has the meaning prescribed in section 101(a)(22) of the Immigration and Nationality Act.


7 posted on 05/11/2023 2:27:29 PM PDT by Signalman
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To: BenLurkin

Had this gone to court, the creep would not have wanted pilots on his jury.


8 posted on 05/11/2023 2:30:22 PM PDT by Seaplaner (Never give in. Never give in. Never, never, never...in nothing, great or small...Winston Churchill)
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To: Signalman

There was a guy named Frank Frakes who made a pretty good living crashing airplanes at fairs and such, back in the ‘30s. A person probably couldn’t do it today.


9 posted on 05/11/2023 2:41:26 PM PDT by HartleyMBaldwin
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To: BenLurkin

What a dummy.


10 posted on 05/11/2023 2:42:07 PM PDT by ptsal (Vote R.E.D. >>>Remove Every Democrat ***)
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To: rarestia

You are correct, unfortunately. The only cure is to turn to Jesus Christ!


11 posted on 05/11/2023 3:09:18 PM PDT by No name given (Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: BenLurkin

Hopefully those 20 years will straighten him out, and may he serve the whole sentence with no parole!


12 posted on 05/11/2023 3:10:37 PM PDT by No name given (Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: BenLurkin

It was evident from the video that he set up the stunt.


13 posted on 05/11/2023 3:14:48 PM PDT by Mr.Unique (My boss wants me to sign up for a 401K. No way I'm running that far! )
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To: BenLurkin

This idiot was probably trying to win the Darwin Award, a prize given to those who kill themselves by doing something stupid, thereby improving the gene pool.


14 posted on 05/11/2023 4:20:06 PM PDT by Fiji Hill
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An idiot for sure but ... what actual law did he break? It was his plane, he obviously chose a desolate area to ‘crash’. Is everything so regulated that he can’t do what he wants with his own property?


15 posted on 05/11/2023 4:21:36 PM PDT by LibertyWoman (America, the Handwriting is on the Wall. )
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Another thing that infuriates me about this clown is that he deliberately destroyed an antique airplane—a World War II-era Taylorcraft BL-65.


16 posted on 05/11/2023 4:23:28 PM PDT by Fiji Hill
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To: rarestia
Narcissistic sociopaths?


17 posted on 05/11/2023 4:25:02 PM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: LibertyWoman

He may have crashed the plane in a desolate area, but the crash could have ignited a disastrous brushfire.


18 posted on 05/11/2023 4:26:47 PM PDT by Fiji Hill
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To: Fiji Hill
Another thing that infuriates me about this clown is that he deliberately destroyed an antique airplane—a World War II-era Taylorcraft BL-65.

Exactly. That aircraft managed to make it to maybe 80 years old, only to be deliberately destroyed by that idiot.
19 posted on 05/11/2023 4:27:33 PM PDT by BikerJoe
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To: HerrBlucher

He’s not going to get anywhere close to 20 years unless he spits on the judge.


20 posted on 05/11/2023 5:02:44 PM PDT by PAR35
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