An Influencer Pilot Is Under Investigation After Being Accused of Crashing His Plane On Purpose

A pilot and professional YouTuber has range into some bother after he crashed his sheet in the California flock last calendar month , only to be accused of doing the whole thing on purpose to snaffle some pageboy views . Now he ’s being look into by the feds .

Trevor Jacob , a former Olympic snowboarder turn social media star , recently crash a Taylorcraft BL64 plane into the foothill of the Los Padres National Forest , filming the entire episode as it pass off , The Drivereports . Jacob , who has been make YouTube videos for awhile , has take that he was en path from Lompoc City Airport in Santa Barbara to Mammoth Lakes ( a Sierra Nevada snowboard township ) when the plane randomly stalled out , forcing him to abandon it . When he get away , Jacob notably pitched the plane olfactory organ - down , thrust it on a erect flight into the wilderness , before jump out out with a chute .

A 17 - minute video uploaded to Jacob ’s YouTube page , style “ I Crashed My Plane , ” captures this entire lark : from a sunny burlesque , to Jacob ’s realization that the plane is in worry , to his diva out of the plane doorway and the release of his parachute .

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With the help of a selfie marijuana cigarette and plane - mount cameras , we see Jacob plummet through the melody , while the ill-starred aircraft descends lower and scummy — in the end barrel into the side of a hill . Jacob is then forced to boost through the wild until he is pluck up by someone in a truck ( Jacob claims this man was “ a James Leonard Farmer ” ) . The video clear Jacob more than a million page views .

However , it did n’t take long for the internet to become suspect of Jacob ’s narrative , and YouTube has since become populated with videos critiquing the pilot burner ’s history . Aviation professionals have questioned many of Jacob ’s decision during the flight . For instance , the need to jump from the plane seemed suspectto one expert , who offered that the fomite could have been piloted for another 15 to 20 miles . In the television , Jacob also makes the claim that he “ always ” flies with a parachute ; this claim was afterwards debunked by a number of viewers who noted that , in fact , he is n’t wearing a parachute in most of his videos and that to do so is n’t peculiarly usual for modest - sheet pilots , as there ’s usually not enough room .

To make matters more interesting , the Federal Aviation Administration is now investigating the crash , reports air travel website AVweb . “ The FAA is investigating this consequence , ” the agency told the wall socket on Monday , while refuse to remark further . While there ’s not much to go off there , a thorough investigation by federal functionary should be able-bodied to tell whether a aeroplane malfunctioned or was intentionally counteract in some direction .

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Ultimately , Jacob is either an innocent human who quite amazingly survived an wild carpenter’s plane smash and is now being below the belt pilloried by a paranoid YouTube mob , or he ’s a societal media influencer doing what influencers do : pull scandalmongering stunts to take hold of attending and watch the view roll in .

Adding fuel to the fire is the fact that Jacob in reality is n’t the first influencer pilot to get accused of faking a plane crash . A couple of years ago , David Lesh , a former pro skier and the possessor of a Colorado sportswear company , was pilotinga planenear Half Moon Bay in northern California when the engine allegedly stalled , storm him to conduct an hand brake water landing . The fact that the whole matter was shoot and lateruploaded to YouTubeled many to consider that Lesh had staged the crashto garner attentionfor his business organization .

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