A YouTuber has admitted to deliberately crashing his plane for YouTube views and has pleaded guilty to obstructing a federal investigation, the US Department of Justice announced.
Trevor Jacob, a former Olympic snowboarder, faces up to 20 years in prison after he purposely destroyed the wreckage of the small single-engine plane that he crashed in California’s Los Padres national forest in November 2021.
He told investigators that his plane lost power and that he did not know where the wreck was during the crash, but investigators found he made no attempt to call air traffic control, restart his engine or search for a safe place to land.
