# Pilots, lawyers, etc: Let's talk about Trevor Jacob, YouTuber who may have intentionally crashed his plane for publicity

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**Created:** [March 13, 2022, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pilots-lawyers-etc-lets-talk-about-trevor-jacob-youtuber-who-may-have-intentionally-crashed-his-plane-for-publicity/960985 "2022-03-13T19:46:24Z")\
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**Author:** ![jnglmassiv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f07891/32.png) [@jnglmassiv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jnglmassiv)\
**Post date:** [April 21, 2022, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pilots-lawyers-etc-lets-talk-about-trevor-jacob-youtuber-who-may-have-intentionally-crashed-his-plane-for-publicity/960985/25 "2022-04-21T01:17:40Z")

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The FAA revoked his license.

Paywalled:

> **[A YouTuber Purposely Crashed His Plane in California, F.A.A. Says](https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/20/us/trevor-jacob-youtube-plane-crash.html)**
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> The video from December shows Trevor Jacob cursing in panic before leaping with a parachute out of a small plane. Some experts had wondered if the crash was a publicity stunt.

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