YouTuber Trevor Jacob stripped of pilot certificate after allegedly crashing plane on purpose YouTube: Trevor JacobYouTuber Trevor Jacob has had his pilot certificate revoked by the FAA after he received backlash for allegedly purposely crashing a plane for a video. In December, YouTuber Trevor Jacob, who has over 130,000 subscribers on his channel, uploaded a video titled \u2018I crashed my plane\u2019 in which he parachuted into the Nevada mountains after an alleged engine failure, leaving the pilotless plane to crash. \u201cI did not think I would make it out alive,\u201d he wrote in an Instagram post. \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 However, in early 2022 the video became the subject of controversy as many raised their suspicions about the incident, with flight instructor Robert Perry telling the Santa Barbara Independent, \u201cit\u2019s all very suspect.\u201d On April 11, the Federal Aviation Administration revealed the YouTuber\u2019s private pilot license has been revoked. \u201cOn November 24, 2021, you demonstrated a lack of care, judgment, and responsibility by choosing to jump out of an aircraft solely so you could record the footage of the crash,\u201d the letter read. \u201cYour egregious and intentional actions on these dates indicate that you presently lack the degree of care, judgment and responsibility required of a certificate holder.\u201d In a podcast episode uploaded on April 16, Jacob said: \u201cAlright, so addressing the plane situation. I can\u2019t talk about it, per my attorney, but the truth of that situation will come out with time, and I\u2019ll leave that at that. So, I won\u2019t be really talking about that very much.\u201d Topic starts at 26:17 The former Olympian\u2019s comment section is full of criticism from viewers, with one comment with over 1000 likes reading: \u201cHe seems like the type a guy that would fake a plane crash and tell a scripted survival story for views only to reappear months later and pretend it never happened!\u201d The comments on the original video have been turned off.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
YouTuber Trevor Jacob stripped of pilot certificate after allegedly crashing plane on purpose YouTube: Trevor JacobYouTuber Trevor Jacob has had his pilot certificate revoked by the FAA after he received backlash for allegedly purposely crashing a plane for a video. In December, YouTuber Trevor Jacob, who has over 130,000 subscribers on his channel, uploaded a […]<\/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-66028","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66028","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=66028"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66028\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}