YouTuber Trevor Jacob accused of deliberately crashing plane, loses pilot certificate

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Trevor Jacob, a YouTuber with over 130,000 followers uploaded a video back in December titled, “I crashed my plane." In it, the YouTuber dove out of a plane in the Nevada mountains with an alleged engine failure. He left the plane to crash, but the FAA (Federal Aviation Administration) did not agree. Ultimately, the FAA required Trevor to relinquish his pilot certificate.

He briefly mentioned it in a recent podcast, but social media doesn’t have a lot of sympathy for him right now.

On April 11, 2022, the Federal Aviation Administration made it clear the pilot’s license of the YouTuber was officially revoked. The letter found its way to the r/aviation subreddit, where a user posted it for everyone to read:

The FAA seemed very suspicious of the incident, citing the YouTuber opening the left-side pilot door before even declaring the engine had failed, and that the pilot did not contact air traffic control about the emergency and did nothing to reverse the situation. According to the authorities, he could have made a safe landing in a variety of places, but he chose to crash the plane and dispose of the wreckage.

Then on April 16, 2022, on the first edition of the Trevor Jacob “Adventured” podcast, he mentioned the topic but offered no details or insight.

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While the former Olympian-turned-YouTuber has some followers, a great deal of social media sees it as nothing more than a publicity stunt, and an incredibly dangerous and irresponsible one at that.

As it turns out, many people thought the stunt was egregious and weren’t shocked at all when Trevor Jacob lost his pilot's license due to this plane crashing stunt.

Many commenters on YouTube thought it was an obvious fake, and felt the pilot was clearly the kind