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.
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.
I guess he hadn’t gotten around to moving to Florida.
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.
Had this gone to court, the creep would not have wanted pilots on his jury.
What a dummy.
Hopefully those 20 years will straighten him out, and may he serve the whole sentence with no parole!
It was evident from the video that he set up the stunt.
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.
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?
Another thing that infuriates me about this clown is that he deliberately destroyed an antique airplane—a World War II-era Taylorcraft BL-65.
He would have got more hits if he had killed himself