From getting your girlfriend to shoot you within the chest by means of an encyclopaedia (seems books don’t make you sensible; he died) to dangling from the world’s tallest buildings and simply driving at moronic speeds by means of metropolis streets, YouTubers have performed some loopy issues for views. However one of many dumbest and most outrageous stunts concerned an intentional airplane crash that would land the pilot in jail for 20 years.

Trevor Jacob set off from Lompoc Metropolis Airport in California in November 2021 on a solo flight that he claimed would take him to Mammoth Lakes. However 35 minutes into the flight he reported a mechanical failure and bailed out of the airplane, whose wing-mounted GoPro cameras recorded the entire story.

The pilot parachuted down safely, leaving the plane to plummet into the Los Padres Nationwide Forest beneath. The eventual crash – happily, in an uninhabited space – was recorded by a digital camera on a selfie stick Jacob simply so occurred to have with him as he descended, and he subsequently hiked to the crash web site to get better the remainder of the footage.

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Sadly for the pilot, aviation buffs who watched the footage on YouTube have been fast to identify the holes in his story, and the Nationwide Transportation Security Board (NTSB) and Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) have been equally fast to start their very own investigations. In a plea settlement Jacob admitted he filmed the stunt to meet a sponsorship deal, however he’s in a lot larger bother than merely having his flying license revoked, which already occurred final 12 months.

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Now Jacob is going through as much as 20 years behind bars after admitting to obstructing a federal investigation. When he initially reported the crash to the Nationwide Transportation Security Board, the YouTuber was informed that he was answerable for preserving the airplane wreckage for investigation. However Jacob used a helicopter to carry the wrecked airplane, which was then illegally taken to a hangar at Lompoc Metropolis Airport by a trailer connected to Jacob’s truck, was dismantled and the elements have been disposed of.

The irony of the entire story is that greater than 18 months after it was uploaded, Jacob’s unique video “I Crashed My Airplane” has solely been watched a comparatively modest 3.1 million occasions, which is in regards to the variety of views Carwow will get for drag-racing three wagons, although that does admittedly additionally contain a runway.