A YouTuber was sentenced Monday to 6 months in federal jail for obstruction of justice after deliberately crashing his single-propeller airplane … to bolster his social media.
Trevor Daniel Jacob, 30, of Lompoc — a former Olympic snowboarder who was going by means of a max sentence of 20 years — was sentenced to solely 6 months by United States District Resolve John F. Walter … after pleading accountable to at the least one rely of “destruction and concealment with the intent to impede a federal investigation” on June 30.
Federal prosecutors say in a present data launch that Jacob confessed to orchestrating the crash on November 24, 2021 … posting the pre-planned event to YouTube nearly a month shortly December 23, titling it, “I Crashed My Airplane.”
The video sees Jacob flying a single-engine airplane from Lompoc Metropolis Airport to Mammoth Lakes … sooner than claiming the airplane’s engine had failed half-hour in.
The footage captures Jacob opening the facet door and leaping out to deploy a parachute just because the airplane hurtles downward proper right into a crash below.
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Prosecutors say he purposely waited two days to report the pre-planned crash to the Nationwide Transportation Safety Board, who prompt him to guard the wreckage — though he stalled the investigation, telling them he didn’t know the place the airplane went down.
Instead, he used a helicopter to raise the wreckage out of the Los Padres Nationwide Forest on December 10, 2021 … sooner than dismantling and disposing of it.
All through his sentencing Monday, Resolve Walter ordered him to surrender to the authorities by Jan. 29 … with Jacobs saying in an announcement conveyed by his lawyer: “This experience has been so humbling.”
He added the sentence was the “correct willpower.”
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