“YouTuber Trevor Jacob Pleads Guilty to Deliberately Crashing Plane for Views in Washington DC”

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One person YouTuber named Trevor Jacob Of United States of America (USA) admitted that he deliberately crashed his plane to get a large audience or views. Jacob pleaded guilty to charges of obstructing a US federal investigation and could face a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison.

As reported The GuardianSaturday (13/5/2023), the US Department of Justice announced that 29-year-old Jacob has agreed to plead guilty to the charges against him.

According to US attorney’s office documents, Jacob faces up to 20 years in prison in a US federal prison after he deliberately brought down a light single-engine plane to smithereens in the Los Padres, California, national forest area in 2021.

In this case, Jacob parachuted out of his plane before it crashed, then uploaded a video documenting the incident to YouTube. He initially told US federal investigators that his plane had lost power and did not know where the wreckage was.

But the story told by Jacob raised doubts among aviation experts and US federal authorities. Later, US authorities learned that Jacob had made absolutely no attempt to contact air traffic controlor trying to restart the plane’s engine, or looking for a safe place for an emergency landing.

The YouTuber, who describes himself as an experienced pilot and parachutist, admitted in his defense document that he never intended to complete his solo flight from Lompoc Airport in southern California to Mamooth Lake in the Sierra Nevada Mountains.

Prior to takeoff on November 24, 2021, Jacob a number of cameras in several parts of the plane and equipped himself with a parachute, video camera and selfie stick. About 35 minutes into the flight, he jumped out of the plane and began filming the plane crashing into an area of ​​dry brush on the ground. Once on the ground, Jacob climbs to the crash site and retrieves footage of the incident.

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