Trevor Jacob Fake the Crash?

He absolutely faked it. Consider:

- Happened to wear a skydiving parachute for the first time on YT on this flight
- Fuel selector line to the right wing was visibly disconnected, accounting for an empty wing, short intended flight, and the lack of fire
- Left door was ajar when prop started to sputter
- Down/up pitch inputs during "engine failure" add drag and slow the plane, whereas basic pilot training is to put the nose down to gain airspeed

This pilot had some good points.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=724JxkwWqA8

Are we approaching a new human era when everything becomes just clickbait?

Also accounts for the lack of any fuel leaking from the mangled wings at the crash.
He’s gonna have some splainin’ to do!

The FAA report will be out in a year. I hope this goes to criminal charges, a complete disregard for human safety (not his).

Getting finger cramps?

+ "Happened" to occur over unpopulated area
This is ridiculous.

Oh boy, check out the recent comments on his previous videos like "Scary Flying Stories" (he obviously deactivated commenting on this one)

He's done.

Totally got this vibe as soon as I was watching the video - can't articulate exactly why but he seemed way too calm after for what had just happened; he didn't even seem to send a distress while in the plane (though the choppy editing could account for that); he jumped out of the plane with a self-stick; he made sure to land near the plane so he could recover the footage before the FAA/authorities got it; and it didn't even seem like he had tried to find a safer place to ditch the plane (or land). If this was a YT stunt he should have his balls nailed to the wall and thrown in jail. While I'm sure the chances were slim, he still could have killed someone with this stunt.

The FAA is up there with the TSA, DHS and the NSA as far as TLAs you should NEVER piss-off.

I got pulled over by DHS while I was driving through North Cascades National Park a few years ago. They weren't even marked trucks. One pulled ahead of me, the second one was right on my rear bumper and the "PULL OVER NOW!" was like the voice of God.

I was going camping and they made me pull every fucking thing out of my Subie. Then they went through it all. They confiscated my two pre-rolls and my pipe ("you're on Federal land"), then they called "backup". I sat on the side of the road at Newhalem for about two hours while they dug through all my stuff like a half-dozen times and kept asking me the same stupid-ass questions ("why are you here", "do you know anyone in this area?", "have you ever been arrested for a crime in the US or abroad?") over and over. People where driving by and looking at me and my wife like we were the whitest ISIS fighters ever.

They gave me the ol' "You're free to go" and drove off.

Fuckers took my dope!!

They revoked his License

https://www.avweb.com/aviation-news/faa-revokes-certificate-of-youtuber-who-crashed-plane/

Hardly enough.
Should be a permanent revocation, should be a MASSIVE fine, and at minimum conviction of misdemeanor charges for dumping in a national forest, endangering the public, even attempted arson.

I’m really disappointed the FAA agreed it was intentional but handed out such a weak slap on the wrist.