No shit department: FAA rules Trevor Jacob intentionally crashed airplane [View all]

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https://www.aviationweekly.org/news/faa-rules-youtuber-trevor-jacob-purposely-crashed-airplane

This one was so obvious: In November 2021 professional maniac Trevor Jacob boarded his 1940 Taylorcraft airplane. He was wearing his skydiving equipment and his aircraft was covered in GoPro cameras. The engine stopped running during the flight and Mr. Jacob immediately bailed out. He made a video of him coming down that looked quite a bit like something out of Vin Diesel’s daredevil movie XXX. He landed, walked back to his plane to retrieve all the cameras, then posted a video on YouTube entitled I Crashed My Plane.

The entire YouTube aviation community was in agreement he did this on purpose.

Today we learn the FAA agreed with their assessment. Their letter of April 11 states he violated federal aviation regulations and operated his plane in a careless or reckless manner so as to endanger the life or property of another. The most the FAA can do to you is to revoke your pilot’s license, and they did that. But there are other agencies that can send you to prison, and I think this will happen.