Crashing plane for YouTube views gets 'Daredevil' YouTuber Trevor Jacob 6 months in jail

People nowadays are doing insane things for views but Trevor Jacob AKA Daredevil took things to extreme levels when he jumped off a plane, and now he is paying for it (quite literally).

What

• In December 2021, Trevor Jacob posted a video online, where he was seen jumping off a plane, which later crashed.
• The 30-year-old former Olympic snowboarder, in the video, was seen with a selfie stick, parachuting down safely.
• The video soon gathered millions of views online but was later deleted.  

• After the experience, he did mention in a statement that the experience, was "so humbling" and that it was the right decision. 
• But things turned south pretty soon for him.
• Jacob had to plead guilty to a "count of destruction and concealment with the intent to obstruct a federal investigation", and was sentenced to six months in prison.
• In April 2022 The Federal Aviation Administration revoked his pilot’s license.

What did the police have to say?

The federal prosecutors in California, US, on Monday said that Jacob "most likely committed this offence to generate social media and news coverage for himself and to obtain financial gain".

Here's how things went down for Jacob

• In November 2021, Jacob flew alone from a California airport with cameras on his plane. 
• He brought a parachute and a selfie stick.
• Instead of reaching his destination, he planned to eject from the plane mid-flight (after 35 minutes), recording himself parachuting down and the plane crashing.

• But little did he know that the destination that he was ejecting himself to was Los Padres National Forest, and that he destroyed the habitat. 
• After the crash, Jacob hiked to the crash site, retrieved the footage, and uploaded a video titled "I crashed my airplane" on YouTube, which had millions of views.
• The video also had a promotion for a wallet company, according to BBC.
• After the crash, Jacob reported the crash to the National Transportation Safety Board but there was a problem.

The real problem

• When the National Transportation Safety Board asked Jacob about the location of the wreckage he said he didn't know about it, as the whole thing was an accident. 
• But Jacob finally confessed in a plea agreement in May that he intentionally crashed the plane as a stunt, lied to the National Transportation Safety Board, and took the wreckage to hinder the investigation.
• However, some viewers mentioned that the crash was intentional, and the National Transportation Safety Board said that he was "responsible for preserving the wreckage". 

Even though the video that Jacob uploaded was deleted, someone downloaded it and uploaded it again: