[HN Gopher] YouTuber who intentionally crashed plane is sentence...
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YouTuber who intentionally crashed plane is sentenced to 6 months
in prison
Author : grecy
Score : 23 points
Date : 2023-12-04 21:56 UTC (1 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (twitter.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (twitter.com)
| duskwuff wrote:
| Might as well link to the DOJ press release; the Twitter post
| doesn't add any useful information:
|
| https://www.justice.gov/usao-cdca/pr/santa-barbara-county-ma...
| JumpCrisscross wrote:
| Critically, he is _not_ going to jail for intentionally
| crashing the plane. He is being jailed "for obstructing a
| federal investigation by deliberately destroying the wreckage
| of an airplane."
|
| Had he cooperated, it's plausible to see him getting away with
| a license revocation and fine. Instead he did this:
|
| "In the weeks following the plane crash, Jacob lied to
| investigators that he did not know the wreckage's location. In
| fact, 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 to
| Rancho Sisquoc in Santa Barbara County, where it was loaded
| onto a trailer attached to Jacob's pickup truck.
|
| Jacob drove the wreckage to Lompoc City Airport and unloaded it
| in a hangar. He 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 at the airport
| and elsewhere, which was done with the intent to obstruct
| federal authorities from investigating the November 24 plane
| crash."
| duskwuff wrote:
| Note, however, that this doesn't mean that he would have
| gotten away with it if he'd cooperated. It means that the
| federal prosecutor decided that the act of obstruction would
| be easier to prove, since the intentional nature of those
| acts is much more self-evident.
| foobarian wrote:
| Wow, that's a lot of expensive trouble to go through to cover
| up. I wonder what the penalties would be otherwise - I'm sure
| there is some kind of code it broke but it's not obviously
| illegal. It's like me crashing my car on purpose.
| DistractionRect wrote:
| It really doesn't, and in fact proceeds to screenshot said
| press release.
|
| For those that can't login to view the thread:
| https://nitter.net/bnonews/status/1731748816250974335
| I_Am_Nous wrote:
| Sentenced not for crashing the plane, but destroying the evidence
| and impeding a federal investigation. Hope they pull his pilots
| license if they haven't already.
| toomuchtodo wrote:
| Airmen cert doesn't show up in
| https://amsrvs.registry.faa.gov/airmeninquiry/Main.aspx
|
| https://www.aviationweekly.org/news/pw8d8knj7uroieoxodawivkl...
|
| > In a letter sent to Trevor Jacob by the FAA on April 11th,
| the FAA said he had violated federal aviation regulations and
| operated his single-engine aircraft in a "careless or reckless
| manner so as to endanger the life or property of another." The
| agency said it would immediately revoke Trevor Jacob's private
| pilot certificate, suspending his license to operate any
| aircraft.
| fxtentacle wrote:
| For me, the really interesting question is not if he's guilty - I
| had assumed as much - but if he will come out financially
| successful. That video had millions of views and a sponsorship
| deal. Call me a cynic, but it seems that some companies will
| deliberately break the law and pay the price if it's worth it, so
| why not independent hustlers.
| WillPostForFood wrote:
| Legal fees alone are going to be many times YouTube revenue.
| Add lost wages for a half year in prison. Add future lost
| revenue from sponsors who don't want to be associated with
| this, and it has to be a huge financial disaster.
| duskwuff wrote:
| [delayed]
| resolutebat wrote:
| Plenty of previous discussion on HN, but IMHO the most
| interesting one was the early dissection of whether or not the
| crash was intentional:
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29729307
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