YouTuber Pleads Guilty -- Confesses To INTENTIONALLY Crashing Plane 'To Gain Online Views'!
14.05.2023 - 21:55
/ perezhilton.com
YouTuber and Olympic snowboarder Trevor Jacob is coming clean and admitting he intentionally crashed a plan in order “to gain online views.”
For those who don’t know, an investigation was launched by the Federal Aviation Administration on suspicions that the 29-year-old crashed a plane on purpose for attention on social media. Jacob posted a video titled “I Crashed My Airplane” on YouTube in December 2021 that showed him flying a single-engine aircraft toward Mammoth Lakes in California. However, the trip soon took a turn when one of the engines began to fail, and the propellers stopped spinning.
Jacob immediately opened the side door and jumped out of the plane with a parachute. While falling to the ground, he took out a selfie stick to record his and the plane’s descent. The plane eventually crashed into the mountains. Meanwhile, Jacob landed somewhere on the ground. He said in the video:
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The social media influencer then proceeded to hike several hours through the woods to look for help since he had no phone service or water. At one point, he stumbled across the plane wreckage and showed the damage on camera. He expressed at the time:
Eventually, Jacob found a road and a Good Samaritan in a car. You can see the entire video (below):
Such a scary situation. However, it turns out that the athlete crashed the plane for clout! When the video became viral, experts were immediately skeptical and doubted this was an accident. Why is that? Many people pointed out that there were multiple camera angles in the video, he was wearing a parachute while flying the plane, and the door was unlocked when he jumped. There was so much speculation about the incident that
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