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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He would have got more hits if he had killed himself
Yeah, he will probably just get probation or maybe a year.
It was an area where a wildfire would have been fast spreading and difficult to fight. He needs a special kind of ass kicking.
Don’t know why he lied to the feds. It was clear from the Youtube that it was intentional. Stupidity on top of Stupidity, I suppose.
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