YouTuber Trevor Jacob accused of crashing plane on purpose for views YouTube TrevorJacbobFormer Olympic snowboarder turned YouTuber Trevor Jacob has been accused of crashing a plane on purpose for views and attention on social media. \u201cI Crashed My Plane,\u201d is the title of a December 24 YouTube upload from Jacob. As the name implies, the former athlete was involved in an incident that saw him parachuting into the Nevada mountains after an alleged engine failure. Described as \u201cthe most intense experience of his life,\u201d Jacob launched himself out of the plane moments after things appeared to go awry. The video, seen by almost 400,000 viewers at the time of writing, has become a point of controversy early in 2022. With comments disabled and an investigation launched by the Federal Aviation Administration, many are questioning whether it was staged. Jacob intended to fly over the mountains to spread the ashes of a friend. Shortly into the trek, however, his engine supposedly failed. With \u201cno safe place to land,\u201d he immediately jumped and glided down to safety. \u201cI did not think I would make it out alive,\u201d he said on Instagram. \u201cI promised myself I\u2019d always fly that route with a parachute after a friend died on the same flight path, and it came in handy.\u201d \u201cPlease fly with a parachute,\u201d his latest video reiterated, despite previous uploads clearly showing him flying without a parachute. View this post on Instagram Almost every reply to Jacob\u2019s Instagram post is critical of the incident. While some labeled him a \u201ccon artist,\u201d others went as far as to call him an \u201cembarrassment to aviators everywhere.\u201d \u201cIt\u2019s all very suspect,\u201d flight instructor Robert Perry told the Santa Barbara Independent. Jacob\u2019s plane was allegedly in a \u201cstate of disrepair\u201d before taking off, indicating the crash may have been planned. Furthermore, Perry believed a safe landing was more than possible. \u201cFrom the looks of it, he could\u2019ve guided that plane 15 or 20 more miles and landed it on more level ground,\u201d he explained. \u201cWe never see inside of the cockpit,\u201d popular YouTuber \u2018moistcr1tikal\u2019 said in his own dissection on January 6. \u201cNot a single time while the engine is apparently malfunctioning, do we see anything in the cockpit. We only get the exterior shots.\u201d \u201cThere are so many things that make this video suspicious.\u201d Jacob has been silent across social media since criticisms began piling up. With an official investigation still underway, it\u2019s only a matter of time before we learn the truth behind the video.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
YouTuber Trevor Jacob accused of crashing plane on purpose for views YouTube TrevorJacbobFormer Olympic snowboarder turned YouTuber Trevor Jacob has been accused of crashing a plane on purpose for views and attention on social media. \u201cI Crashed My Plane,\u201d is the title of a December 24 YouTube upload from Jacob. As the name implies, the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66027","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66027"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66027\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}