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YouTuber Pleads Guilty to Intentionally Crashing His Plane to Get Clicks

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“I Crashed My Plane,” has over 4 million views on YouTube at time of writing. In a press release, federal attorneys say that Jacob told investigators that he had intended to use the video for a sponsorship deal with an unnamed wallet company.

Jacob also admitted to hiring a helicopter company to airlift the plane wreckage from the Los Padres forest and later cut up the destroyed plane to dispose of it.

Jacob also confessed to lying to a Federal Aviation Administration official when asked whether he knew where the plane wreckage was located and claimed that he had suffered full loss of power while flying the plane and could not find a safe place to land the plane.

Scrutiny surrounding the plane crash came just weeks after Jacob’s video was posted, as The New York Times published an article in January 2022 speaking with aviation experts about the crash.

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