The YouTuber who bailed out of his own plane and later admitted that he did it for the views is off to jail for six months over the November 2021 stunt. Trevor Jacob earlier plead guilty to obstructing a federal investigation, having recovered and destroyed the wreckage himself to make sure the NTSB couldn’t get its hands on it. Jacob lied to investigators that he did not know the wreckage’s location. Except that on December 10, 2021, Jacob and a friend flew by helicopter to the wreckage site. There, Jacob used straps to secure the wreckage, which the helicopter lifted and carried away, where it was loaded onto a trailer attached to Jacob’s pickup truck. Jacob then cut up and destroyed the airplane wreckage and, over the course of a few days, deposited the detached parts of the wrecked airplane into trash bins.
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