I cannot tell you how irresponsible this was. He crashed his plane into the California mountains, which are infamous for spontaneously combusting. This dude could have caused a massive gender reveal-level brush fire.
Update: the FAA deemed this was intentional, permanently suspended Trevor Jacob's pilot license, and are planning on taking further legal action against him.
@@whitelivesmatter.alllivesb3451 Well, damn. At least I know the FAA won't make it that easy for him. I can't find any more details, but I'll bet there were a ton of stipulations he had to meet: He would have to retake several flying classes, pay fines up the ass, and require that he flies a certain amount of hours with a co-pilot all over again. I could be wrong, but just because the FAA can't prosecute people doesn't mean they aren't super vindictive.
@@Rune3D I saw that he wrote the FFA an apology letter and I think they said his license was only suspended for 9.5 months in a email reply but I'm not sure.
Fun fact: if your engine fails, it is 100% possible to safely glide the plane down to the ground. It especially appears he would’ve been able to do it in this video.
My friend was 18 when she died from a stalled engine. It was only two weeks after she graduated, after learning she was accepted to college on a full ride for aviation. She died alongside her instructor. Stories like this anger me because it looks so staged and he clearly didn't run through his options before bailing. I hope his license (if he had one) is revoked indefinitely
Private pilot here. There are so many things wrong with this as was pointed out. The thing that boggles me the most is the fact that there was no attempt to save the aircraft, whether it be by restarting the engine, conducting a forced landing somewhere. He immediately decided to just GTA bail out. He's lucky the aircraft did not cause a fire when it crashed, especially with the crash location being in an area full of super dry grass.
Well if we take the approach of the whole thing being premeditated for views, the engine probably genuinely failed due to fuel starvation, which would be backed by the fact the plane had no signs of fire damage after the crash. It’s very immature of him and a very poor display of airmanship.
Officer, my check engine light came on while I was driving on the highway and at 80mph so I opened my car door and bailed out! That's why I always drive with a helmet on!
This actually makes alot if sense, because I was thinking that the plane must be more expensive than a ridge sponsorship. Like how else would he profit from this?
@@jeremyellis6552 actually, it could be likely that the plane MIGHT be cheaper than the ridge wallet sponsership. A plane like that used is only bout 15k-25k and given that it doesn't seem to have the best avionics I'm betting its around 15k or so. Insurance fraud to me seems unlikely to be honest.
@@brandonjustus9954 oh I had no idea planes were that cheap. Also, Maybe the ridge money isn't more than that but the potential of getting more sponsors in the future would be more money than the plane.
"The Pilot community is the most respectful community" I'd assume it's because they're mostly comprised of grown and mature professionals with lots of experience handling situations with a calm and focused attitude
@ttlSen it also helps that there is a blameless culture with regards to incidents. Generally when crashes happen, no one is named and it is treated as an investigation to work out what happened and how to stop it again in general rather than just persecuting people. This is one of the few cases where I feel like that isn't possible.
"mature professionals" **meowing on guard intensifies** Nah, jokes aside though, 100% agree with you there. Flying is a highly complex activity that requires huge amounts of training and patience; those who wouldn't be inclined towards being mature and respectful in the first place usually never get to become pilots.
We are taught to speak a certain way but we have bigger egos than anyone really. I flew for years before becoming a counselor and you’d be surprised how instantly another pilot disarms himself from being a total dick at a hotel bar or whatever the moment I mention I was a pilot.
Ya it's strange that he didn't do anything to attempt to fix the situation. He was just like, "ok Im out". And if his defense is that he did try to fix the situation, why would did he edit that part out? I have featured 2 videos on my channel where the plane engine died and the pilots were always calm and tried to fix the situation.
That’s a good point. It makes sense to show yourself trying to fix the situation. It would give more merit to the argument that he tried to save the plane
I would like to point out that the particular plane that Trevor is piloting was manufactured in 1940. It did not have a starter motor so the pilot has to manually turn the propeller in order to start the engine, so restarting the engine was definitely not an option. However, he had plenty of altitude to find a safe landing. These planes have been used by bush pilots for decades, it absolutely could have managed a safe emergency landing.
Just to expand on your point for those who don't know, its a Bush Plane. The entire reason people buy these planes is that they are built specifically to maintain lift at incredibly low speeds, AND land in rough terrain.
Honestly, I heard that even with the wind and being that high up in the air, you could actually restart the engine since the prop is moving enough from the wind.
@@sebastianriz4703 You’re right as we see in the video, the prop is spinning. Also an aircraft that small and nimble you could probably land it pretty much anywhere with minor damage
@@Scooter227 Oh 100%. The Taylorcraft that he is flying has one of the best glide ratios out there. This dude genuinely could have glided back to the airport he took off from.
@@sebastianriz4703 by design yeah a lot of planes are supposed to do that even ones that can start from the inside just to give it that little push start but that doesn't mean it works all the time, but it died really fast no backfiring or anyting I would think an engine would try to push through atleast for a few seconds. but could be a fixer upper gotten for a real discount a real steal not anything he would miss....
Friendly reminder that there were people in these mountains at the time. He actually runs into people while looking for the plane afterwards. This wasnt a massive swath of empty land. This could've been deadly
That's why the pilot will usually stay in the plane to guide it to a empty patch of land. A park, road, field anything is better than just letting it drive itself
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I am a pilot. Spoilers, if your engine dies at that altitude, you don't immediately jump tf out lmfao. You'd only be carrying a parachute if you are doing aerobatics. Ditching a plane that is gliding level and straight at that altitude is incredibly dangerous. It could have caused serious damage or death on the ground for no good reason. He shouldn't be allowed to fly, and he is definitely going to be getting an unfortunate call given that he willingly posted himself being irresponsible and dangerous with an aircraft on the internet. The FAA has harrassed Tucker Gott for droping a roll of toilet paper from a paramotor on UA-cam; there is no way he isn't going to get heat for this.
Not to mention it could have killed him as well - he was bailing out head first, and it would take only one gasp of wind to drive this plane completely out of control (and do I have to tell to a fellow pilot, what are thousands of things that can go wrong, when a plane is out of control?).
@@salemcrow5078 I can tell you, that ULC (Civil Aviation Authority) and Polish Police put a trial against a pilot, who landed on motorway. As far as I know he got away with this, but it just shows how strict are rules about emergency landing or other things you're allowed or not as a pilot.
Government trying to govern somebody's paramotor and harassing them is one of the most annoying things I have ever read. I absolutely hate how much the government tries to control freedom. Bigger planes, sure, somebody has to make sure people get the proper instruction beforehand. But something like a paramotor that was probably built not bought? Completely egregious and obnoxious, that goes too far down.
@@PM4K I know it sounds bad, but think about those two things: 1) Not only amateur passionates (or people desperately trying to flee Polish People's Republic in 1980's) make their own planes - there are also smugglers doing this kind of thing. 2) If this plane isn't tracked, other pilots don't know where it is. There were many crashes due to that. In this case, it's pretty OK to track planes.
The pilot community is taught early and often that there is never just one factor that causes a plane to crash. Investigations take months or years and every angle is identified. In NTSB investigation reports, along with the primary cause, several contributing factors are also considered in the chain of events that lead to a crash. This is why pilots are very hesitant to jump to conclusions, even in seemingly open and shut cases. We take safety seriously, and if if we fail to consider every single contribution factor, it could very well mean that people may die in the future from a very preventable cause.
...But in this case, I think it's pretty fucking obvious that there was exactly one factor that caused the plane to crash, and that factor was the extremely rare hazard of "the person piloting the plane is a complete fuckhead"
Biggest red flag: he literally boards his plane with a parachute already on and everything. Never, absolutely never will you see a pilot literally board their plane with a parachute already on, and wear the thing throughout the flight. That’s soo uncomfortable! He did it on purpose, it’s pretty clear. *Edit: I mean, you will never see a regular pilot, flying a none-aerobatic aircraft flying with a parachute on.
If you were at an airport waiting for a flight, and you saw a pilot walking into the plane you are about to board wearing a parachute, you'd think twice
Course you will, aerobatics pilots wear parachute thruout all flight. Tho they have special seats and in planes like this, door should have possibility to "disconnect" to make evacuation easier. Clearly that's not aerobatics plane tho.
Yeah boarding and flying a plane with a parachute is strange and uncomfortable. If he really was out there to spread the ashes of his friend , why would he need to wear a parachute already? He done goofed
A pilots take on this: 1) correct, most pilots would be horrified to see another pilot walk to their plane with a parachute on, it would be like getting into a car with full crash gear. The only real aircraft you wear one in are military fast jets, aerobatic aircraft and prototype planes. His plane is a -piper j-3-, it is not an aerobatic aircraft 2) a plane engine out like this just isn’t really gonna happen, but sadly they still do, however if an engine is going to die, there’s normally signs beforehand like sputters/rpm drops. 3) there are checklists you do in any situation in a plane. The one any pilot should memorise and have on hand is the engine restart/hot start list. He didn’t seem to even try to reignite. 4) he was at cruise and at a very high altitude. He had more then 20 minutes of gliding time by the looks of the altitude, subject to the cameras lens. 5) granted flying a single engine over mountains is very dangerous, due to this very situation. On a mountain there’s not really many places to land, especially this plane which is not adapted for stol at all. However you can see in the video behind the planes tail flat land in the distance, which again subject to the cameras fisheye, looks to be well within gliding distance, which would allow him to save his $40,000 plane. 6) the plane looks to be in rough shape, probably wouldn’t be surprised if it was borderline airworthy just so he could do this stunt. He wasted a plane, endangered those on the ground, risked starting a bush fire, then made that crime into a video which plays on the deceased, then slapped a fucking sponsorship on it and uploaded Please also refer to averagealex99 and Dylan prestage’s comments as well Edit: as correctly point out in the replies, this plane is not a piper and is indeed a taylorcraft plane. It may not have an electric start motor meaning he wouldn’t be able to restart the engine normally, however there’s a trick pilots use called windmilling to restart the engine without electric start motors. This is taught in flight schools so he shouldn’t have an excuse as to why he didn’t try that I’ll happily reply to any question because I do love flying and love talking about it.
@@Noah-lj2sg another point, the ash there is like 1/3-1/4 of the amount of ash you’d actually get from a cremation, which means he’s still leveraging the deceased in a selfish manner
@@ThierryPeek unless you're going with the intention of parachuting, there's no reason to wear a parachute, you always have it stashed in the plane itself for an emergency
Gotta love how my man has time to set up the selfie stick camera while freefalling but couldn't even call tower while gliding above cruising altitude lol
Besides committing a felony, almost potentially killing people, and well, yeah crashing a plane, this is so disrespectful to his friend who passed. Imagine sponsoring a tribute, and then crashing a plane just because you want money and views in the same exact video. It’s really fucking disgusting
well I mean he wasn't almost potentially killing anyone, it was an empty mountain range in the middle of nowhere and he knew that. That's like saying anyone who ever goes to a gun range is recklessly endangering everyone within their range fan
He could’ve had a really wholesome video talking about his friend and sharing stories about them and everything. But instead, he focuses on more for generating views for his dumb sponsorship. I’m sure the company that sponsored didn’t know about this in the first place, so no disrespect to them. To this individual himself, I massively, massively dislike.
In April 2022, the FAA determined that he had indeed abandoned the aircraft solely to film the crash. The FAA cited his opening of the cabin door prior to the purported engine failure; the lack of any attempt to execute an emergency landing, contact air traffic control, or restart the engine; and his personal unsupervised recovery of the onboard cameras and the aircraft wreckage, which he allegedly disposed of. The FAA revoked his private pilot certificate and ruled that he will not be permitted to apply for a new certificate for one year, stating that "your flight … [was] careless or reckless so as to endanger life or property of another".
Little update here: it’s been categorically proven he crashed his plane on purpose. What’s more, he’s facing up to 20 years in prison for this day’s clout-chasing.
This really upsets me. A family member of mine was a pilot who used to take skydivers out. His engine failed and he made sure everyone got out before trying his best to make sure the plane didn’t hit houses as it was coming down. He died to make sure nobody else got hurt. His name was Brandon Sparrow. Brandon was a hero. This guy, if the crash was intentional, is a clown.
I’m really sorry to hear that. I skydive and we absolutely love our pilots, they’re like family to us. I imagine that would have been incredibly difficult for everyone who knew him. Sorry for your loss
Small world, Had the pleasure of dealing with Brandon a few times and was a great man. Been a while, but sorry for your loss, time doesn't always make things easier. He got the best possible outcome from an impossible situation, he really was a hero.
I’m a CFII who flies a Taylorcraft all of the time. You’d never cruise that high in a Taylorcraft, the fuel lines weren’t connected (which you can see earlier in the video), to hear the airplane wasn’t even registered, there were no cameras on the inside of the cockpit showing him turning the fuel shutoff valve off, there was plenty of area to land (of which was an airport he could’ve easily made it to). If you have an engine failure the first thing you do is trim for best glide speed and then look for a landing spot. Then in the meantime you would call tower, approach, or guard to let them know your situation. You’d also be trying an aerial restart. Taylorcraft pilots (and like 99% of general aviation pilots except for aerobatics or warbird pilots) never wear parachutes, let alone skydiving parachutes like he was wearing. Normally you would be wearing an emergency parachute. It’s quite obvious that this guy did this for views and that it’s entirely fake. Hopefully the FAA and NTSB will get him for this and pull his license (provided he even had one). Ditching an airplane like that is incredibly irresponsible and dangerous. He could’ve killed people or damaged property. Also, he removed the cameras from the airplane before the investigators told him he could, so he’s facing serious charges for tampering with an ongoing investigation... hope my 2 cents on this helps anyone who is confused...
Scooby1961 took the analysis and lat/long, took his experimental with similar glide profile to expected altitude, and dead stick flies to Santa Inez Airport, makes left traffic downwind, turns base, turns final, and lands full stop. The video is on his YT channel.
My dad was a pilot, and those guys are absolute freaks when it comes to observing logical protocols There are literal binders full of procedures and measures that they have to memorize for every conceivable critical problem. No way this is real
I'd also like to point out that he is using a Skydiving rig, instead of the typical "bail out" rig that some pilots elect to wear. The bailout rig only has 1 parachute (skydiving rigs have 2) and also doubles as a seat cushion which is an added bonus. So yeah, it'd be more believable if he had used one of those.
He would face some issues if he flat out admitted to crashing the plane on purpose, but of course the viewers are not actually supposed to believe it was an accident
Pilot here to add onto your point from the other perspective. The first thing you try doing when you lose your engine is try to restart it. Not immediately fucking jump out of the plane even if you do have a parachute. That he had enough altitude to safely skydive into mountainous terrain tells me that he had way more than enough time for multiple engine restart attempts. This video is without a doubt a load of staged horseshit.
Not only was he wearing a parachute which he doesn't usually do, he was also wearing a camera specifically for skydiving on his wrist. Which he uses when he does skydiving usually. He was clearly intending on going skydiving when he took off in that plane and not just spreading ashes or going for a cruise.
@@anaalina5964 "never usually" is not common usage but can describe like things that almost never change... You could see it in the sports / athletics world. I see no point in trying to give specific examples because "never usually" is perfectly acceptable. He never usually wears a parachute. That makes perfect sense. Never usually. But this time.
@@richardhobbs7360 If you fly the plane all the way into the crash site, you have an extremely high chance of surviving. This is all disregarding the highly suspicious detail of him wearing a full skydiving rig though...
@@tater6124 my man. more users reporting = more fire under google's ass. i'm ashamed to admit it but i spend like an hour of my free time every day bot-hunting, and at least 1/3rd of my time is on this channel's comments
@@RoberttSmithh if ur first instinct as a pilot is to ditch the plane u probably don't have a pilots license. The Golden rule is that you stay in the plane and fly that thing as long as possible
I’m a Student Pilot and what Trevor did honestly irritates me because had this situation been real, he could’ve done SO much more to prevent a crash. We have procedures for engine failures, they’re not so dangerous that it’s reason to jump out of the plane or give up on any chance to save the plane. It’s so obviously faked for attention and validation. Really disappointed by this
@@graysonkking Yep. The NTSB is going to investigate this (they investigate all plane crashes in the US) and they'll find that he didnt call mayday and didnt run any standard restart procedures. He's going to lose his pilots license over this and I'd be very surprised if he didn't.
I am a Certified Flight Instructor, and there's just so many weird things happening here. 1. The aircraft is a Taylorcraft which is a bush airplane. What this means is that the plane can land in a short distance. Like your car would probably take longer to stop than this airplane, so he could have landed on any somewhat flat area there. Also, this plane has crazy glide performance, and at the altitude he was at he could have turned back and glided back to any airport in the region. 2. He hid the tail number of the airplane which says to me that he's trying to hide the registration of the plane. 3. As a pilot, you're federally mandated to report any aircraft crash that results in the loss of the airplane, and it seems that he hasn't done this at all, and the first thing we've known about the crash is his video. 4. Not only does this guy put on a parachute for what is a mundane flight, but also he wears a skydiving rig into the airplane with cameras. I've worn parachutes for aerobatics before, and they're light functional and without any place to attach a camera. Also the dude jumps out with a flipping selfie stick. 5. He doesn't resort back to his training and go through the ABCDE's of engine failure. Fails to establish airspeed for best glide, fails to find best place to land, fails to go through the engine failure checklist and restart the engine, and fails to declare an emergency on his radio. Instead he decides that the best course of action is to ditch the aircraft and jump out. Now I get that emergencies are very stressful and you can forget things, but either this pilot is extremely reckless and faked an accident or he is so deficient in his skills and knowledge that he should never fly again. However, I do have to say it's not every day you get to witness a plane crash from the prospective of the airplane and that was super dope.
Couple things (just a lowly PPL (ASEL) TW here): 2 - At least in my experience flying older aircraft similar to this (champs and cubs), those tiny tail numbers are not uncommon and I believe there is an FAA regulation that permits aircraft registered before a certain date to keep the smaller font. 3 - I think that he did report the crash to the NTSB, and there are unconfirmed reports that they are investigating. In any case, I and probably many others emailed the local FSDO after the crash, so he definitely on their radar. 5 - One thing that is 100% off and he has no excuse for is the lack of an ELT activation. If I realize that I can't restart the aircraft, the ELT is going on. The reason I find this so damning is that every aircraft has an ELT, and there's no way that he can claim a broken radio, no transponder, etc.
Hit the nail on the head there bud. He didn’t even attempt to use any of his training in an attempt to troubleshoot the aircraft. There is literally no excuse for it and I guarantee the FAA will use this point amongst other things to revoke his license.
@@bobjohn2000 As someone who used to be a part of Civil Air Patrol in California and was on the ground teams for Search and Rescue... An ELT should have gone off no matter what. Those things are super sensitive that even a hard landing can set them off.... scary part is that I still have friends and family who are apart of CAP that I heard about a Class A mission around this time while on the phone with my family... Sadly enough I think it is this. I don't know of all the details and such due to being no longer apart of it. But from the perspective of an old Search and Rescue guy... Im glad no one got hurt... And Im really hoping this wasn't a PR stunt...
As a private pilot, I can assure you that he made NO effort to save the plane, ran NO checklists or bold face items. He did it for views. Also, he would never wear a parachute unless performing aerobatics or carrying parachuters.... Or planning a views stunt
There's a third party tool to re-enable it, not sure if it somehow gets the dislike data from youtube or has its own database, its called return youtube dislike, the video in question has 4.6k likes to 26k dislikes as of right now
@@lukeciantar2239 Ive heard its not really "returning" dislikes but rather taking data from those channels from when dislikes were a thing and getting an average like-to-dislike ratio & plastering it to the newer videos. So if a video has 10k likes and the youtuber had an average 90% like ratio before the change, the extension would add 1k dislikes to the newer videos. Or i could be completely wrong and im being a dumbfuck
@@mashucha On the 10th of November, they made the dislike count private on the site. On the 13th December they also removed the ability to grab the amount of dislikes with other methods, like by writing programs to ask the UA-cam server for the dislike count of a video. So the official dislike count for each video is currently not available for anyone, other than the creator of the video itself, UA-cam or a third party that is allowed to view them. Since there is now no way to get the official count without being verified to do so, the extension does more or less what you said. It attempts to create a dislike count that is as accurate as possible (by preventing bot attacks, keeping track of when you clicked a dislike button (anonymously), using previously collected stats, ...) I think that they recently added a way for creators to share their dislike counts voluntarily. Interesting stuff...
It's really bad that behavior like this gets rewarded, because it acts as an incentive for the clout chasers to do more and more dangerous things to top this one.
What I think is a damn shame is that aircraft was made in the 1940s. I don't know shit about planes either but it looked like a beautiful little aircraft
PPL holder here (Private Piolt Licence) Basicly general avation licence to fly small planes like this one. Thank you Charlie for doing your research before making the video. You covered all the suspicions points. - GA Pilots almost never wear parachutes, it's very rare in general aviation to hear of someone wearing a parachute. - We didn't see footage inside the cockpit of the dashboard. We can't see the RPM, engines temperature. (Could have run out of fuel as fuel gauges on old planes are basicly trash. Also fuel line block wouldn't show up on the dash.) Still very suspicious we don't see inside view. - Restarting and trouble shooting - basically just yeeted himself out without set a nice gliding angle and seeing if he can restart the engine. - Bailing out, most pilots would attempt to land the plane with no power. Depending on the land it's very doable. I wounder if he made any ATC (Air Traffic Control) calls? How will the CCA (Civil Aviation Authority) react if they see this video?
@@ZachPlum because that would be an excuse for every pilot, like Trevor jacob, to just jump out of their aircraft just because there is a hint of danger. Too many aircraft would be lost and not trying to do anything to save the aircraft could potentially injure people on the ground.
Even the way the guy is talking is enough, there is ZERO real stress or panic in his voice, this was clearly not an event that caught him by surprise in any way at all.
@@snacksnake7418 Oh, yeah it wasn't just that he was "calm", it was that how he was talking and acting didn't match his emotions. He kept saying things like "oh shit", "oh god" etc, basically talking like if he was reading from a super dramatic movie script the whole time, but with zero actual emotions. A truly stressed out person wouldn't be that void of real emotions, and a calm person wouldn't be talking like that in the first place, so it just doesn't add up.
As a pilot, I wouldn't probably stress out, since something going wrong is a thing I must constantly think about, but engine ,,mulfunction" doesn't convince me. Not to mention engine mulfunction is kinda preventable - of course, not always (there are always some random surprises), but in most cases you can pretty much estimate a risk.
@@sebastianriz4703 it seems like it, but it's also not that easy - of course, I have some margin to work on, but this also includes turning and decreases as I open flaps. I must always plan this landing cite as close as possible, or I wouldn't be flying over certain place at all. That's what we, pilots, are supposed to do - avoid unnecesary risk, making plane the safest meaning of transport known to mankind (falling off a bed is more lethal than flying a plane). As I'm thinking more about this now, I feel like this parachute jump could have been illegal as well - to perform a stunt you need a special permittion and you have to perform it without violating active air zones (or those, in which it's simply prohibited). So, he: - performed a stunt without permittion - didn't make any attempt to save a plane - crashed a plane - risked someone's life You know what, maybe Aviation Law isn't my strong subject, but I feel like they mentioned it on course, that first felony is 10 years at least in Poland.
Student pilot here: You covered the biggest issues which alone make this obviously a crash intended to happen. Every time before I fly, because I'm a student pilot, I have to tell my instructor what I'm going to do if the engine fails at x altitude or facing x direction. I have spent weeks studying what to do in all sorts of emergency scenarios, and I have been told that even if the cockpit is on fire, you bring the plane down to the ground and land ASAP. There are 0 situations in which one would be justified in jumping out of a plane unless one had predetermined and planned a skydive before even takeoff. My opinion is that the owner of the plane either had some major issues with the plane, and got some really good insurance, and decided they would be pulling an insurance scam and getting some views out of it while they were at it. I'd be surprised if this person manages to get even a drone in the air for at least a month, if ever again, let alone a plane. The FAA is one of the toughest and strictest organizations a civilian can mess with, and messing with the FAA is a guaranteed pain in the ass.
My dad is a pilot and he agrees this is clearly staged, he always says that altitudes and speed save lifes, referring to plane malfunctions ofc, this guy had both of those, even if the plane didn't restart at any point he could have glided to safety till he found a place to land and even if he didn't parachuting would be the last option, hope this guy gets the right punishment
@@brotherc8993 I guess that depends on a few things…did he file an insurance claim? What did he tell the feds? Lying to the feds is illegal. Fine him, pull his ticket, and prosecute him for any criminal actions. UA-cam needs to take action too…they ban creators all of the time and they need to ban this “creator” as well.
Another working theory: he purposefully didnt fuel up a sufficient amount for his flight plan to fake an engine failure. Evidence that supports this: the plane didnt burst into flames upon crashing, signifying the lack of fuel in the engine.
my dad is a pilot and some other inconsistencies that he pointed out is that a pilot would usually never fly that type of plane at that altitude, it would take forever to get where he's going and hed just run out of/waste fuel. hes about 9000 feet in the air, and considering the location of the engine fail he could have easily glided back to the airport (or at least out of the mountains) and land safely. its really a miracle that his plane didnt end up in a neighborhood.
I’m not a pilot but my father is, been one for 45 years. I showed him the video and I’ve honest to God never seen him so disappointed. He legit asked me how he could contact the UA-camr to ask what the hell was going through his head lmao
You hit the nail on the head with this one. First, with the fact that nobody flies with a parachute, and second, the fact that when you experience an engine failure in a single-engine, you’re immediate action is to pitch for best glide speed, Identify the best place to land, and attempt engine restart IAW your aircraft’s checklist. As you point out, we don’t see him do any of this. When it comes to his statement of “nowhere to land” that aircraft (I believe it’s a Taylorcraft A series) only requires about 500 feet to land on a bad day. He probably could have found somewhere to set it down especially because he has a lot of time at that altitude. Then there’s the aircraft he was flying. That is one of the cheapest airplanes you can buy used, as of right now there are 3 Taylorcraft on trade-a-plane (kind of like Craigslist for airplanes) all for less than 20k. Whistlindiesel actually bought one a few months ago just to destroy on his property. If you were going to intentionally crash a plane, that would be the most affordable one to do it in.
As a non-expert the thing that seems most fishy to me is how ready he was to film his descent. Assuming this was an unexpected emergency, why on earth would he have a handheld camera for the jump. If he did genuinely bail because it was an emergency, he wouldn't have thought to film it until afterwards
@@SiisKolkytEuroo "Most fishy" meaning more than the rest, but let me rephrase - the most glaring and obvious thing to me personally on a first viewing. Tbf it's possible to be at cruising altitude in the middle of nowhere when genuine emergencies happen, and if you're a UA-camr all the cameras would be set up anyway (apart from the handheld one). You're right the parachute alone makes it obvious even before he jumped but that wasn't the first thing that occurred to me.
The way he bails out definitely seems suspicious. In the aircraft, there’s always a checklist you use in normal operations, and in emergencies but the fact he didn’t think to even run a quick checklist to attempt to save it is weird. Also almost no pilots wear parachutes when they fly, there are very few instances where it is a legal requirement to wear one, but outside of that, nobody does
Internet fame is like a disease. Can’t believe people will go this far for some views. Looks like his plan worked though, just in the worst way possible.
I'm a student pilot, and I really feel like there was so much more he should've/could've done. Not only was he at a high enough altitude to run safety checks (which he very likely did not do), but he didn't try to actually save the aircraft at all, which puts people on the ground in grave danger and leaves you with a totaled plane. He should have tried to at least restart the engine, and if that failed, look for somewhere to get the plane down safely. It might still get damaged, but its better than getting the whole aircraft destroyed + harming whoever/whatever is on the ground. It just bothers me he didn't even attempt any of these procedures and ditched without a second thought
This is either the most unbelievable confluence of unlikely events to have ever occured on-film, or an incredibly obvious stunt that could land this guy in the deepest of shits.
@@jorgesaenz8986 This hurt to read. Literally was thinking about this event earlier today and was half paying attention starting this video only to then turn to see this is Johnny Strange's friend. He was some daredevil or something who did tons of wingsuit flight stunts and stuff. Well he and his friend went somewhere to do it like they've done before, but when they jumped, he dove wrong or something and fell to his death. His friend knew Johnny just died but was in a wingsuit and thousands of feet in the air. It was all on GoPro video and his reaction and emotions while in the sky were haunting. rewatching it, the friend with Johnny wasn't the guy with him when he died, so that's extra fucked up he's milking his death.
@@regulusvii Yet base jumping wingsuit stunt flying is one of the most deadly kinds of things you can do. Literally all base jumping wingsuit people say they lost a lot of friends doing it and eventually they even end up dead. I personally think it isn't sad when they are knowingly going out to do something insanely dumb that has a extremely high risk of death. The deaths are also experienced wingsuit flyers so can't blame ignorance or inexperience. They need to stop doing base jumping with wingsuits.
0:18 Are we talking like...a regional restaurant money or RAID Shadow Legends money. Ridge I'd think about it tho. Edit: Just because his engine cut out, he can still glide it and control the flaps, even if the engine completely failed you can clearly see the wheels on his craft weren't retractable, he can still control the pitch and yaw while looking for a flat area with no chance of actually hurting anyone. He could have maybe even landed the plane, depending on the winds. After watching Trent Palmer's reaction to it, he pointed out some things I honestly missed Loose fuel line His parachute is the sort for skydiving, not the kind a pilot would use in an emergency His door was open by about 2 inches before the engine cut out He rocked the plane back and forth after the engine cut out, which only serves to make the propeller stop quicker, you can even see the propeller spins as the plane is going down Why did he follow the plane in the air as it was crashing? There looks to be flat ground aplenty that he could have landed on
My former roommate/landlord/roomlord was a pilot, little single props like that, and you’re right Charlie, they are one of the most respectful/polite communities.
The pilot community is wholesome as fuck, as a pilot in training, I've only ever had one bad encounter with a fellow pilot, and that's because he couldn't make a radio call to save his life and caused me a lot of stress, given it was my second solo flight ever.
The rest of the comment section seems to support your claim Who would have guessed that the people who work with transportation that moves across 3 dimensions on the middle of the sky where if something larger than a pebble with more density than a cotton ball hits somewhat other than 20% of the plane that isn't essential you might have to make an emergency landing would be level headed
Man, this guy really didn't think thru making this crash look legit and not staged: -At 2:36 in the original video you can see the door looks entirely closed with the handle pointed straight down. At 2:43 when the engine just begins to slow down, you can see the door is already open, and the handle is rotated up towards the rear of the aircraft. Clearly getting ready to jump out before the engine is even all the way off (haven't seen this mentioned anywhere else) -Boards aircraft with parachute already strapped on. Unheard of unless you plan to jump out the plane before you ever leave the ground. -Has multiple other videos showing him flying without a parachute, contradicting claim he "always wears a parachute" -Strange that he clearly had all these staged cameras and even one in the cockpit, yet there is no video of the failure or any troubleshooting. Very very odd not to show the moment of failure and ensuing drama, which if real would certainly have been included. Not just because it is certainly one of the most interesting / critical parts of any aviation crash, but would make for a better/more popular video. -Pilots confirm there appear to be some possible landing spots in the video. Equally strange that none of this decision-making was included in the video. Again, he shows the process of freaking out because obviously the drama is good for the video, but doesn't show the process of talking with ATC and ultimately coming to the decision of ditching the aircraft. -Has GoPro on a selfie stick, ready to film himself parachuting. Almost like he was prepped for one of his regular skydiving videos. Compiled all this, saved the videos to google drive, and reported to the FAA. Hope this dude is never allowed to pilot again.
What I don’t understand about the landing part is that he is over mountains. Not just that but with that altitude he would of have to pick up a lot of speed. (I’m not a pilot so I assume the air breaks still work without the engine?)
@@MrFriendlyCsgoContent as Long as you can fly the plane , with or without engine it won’t matter bc you would’ve been trained for exactly these kinds of events .. this guy could have landed in a lot of spots but that’s not the point anyway so yeah
@@MrFriendlyCsgoContent usually small planes like those don't have airbrakes in the technical sense. Where I fly, most pilots pretty much need a mountain rating when flying outside of gliding distance from the prairies. You would be taught the proper landing locations in an event like that when you take the course. I haven't yet, so I can't speak if that behalf. As for the altitude, some maneuvers are figure 8s and forward slips. Figure 8 is done when you are very high and have a good location in sight. Forward slip is where you point the nose of the plane away from the direction it is going to make a lot of drag. This is good if you are quite high but not enough for figure 8s. Flaps are used to increase glide angle and decrease approach speed. Usually you should land with full flaps using a soft field technique.
I’m a student pilot and have been following this crazy story for a few days now. I just found your video. You have a new subscriber. You are hilarious. I love your comments about this jackass, and about the aviation community. Fabulous
I’m a flight instructor in Tennessee and there is so much wrong with the way this emergency was handled. He should have made sure the plane was completely totaled because the post crash analysis from the NTSB will find out what happened. If you want flight lessons Charley let me know haha
@@fadec6410 Going to an airline after bud? Just earned my CFI in December and working on my CFII, and it sure is shocking what some students end up doing.
Aeronautical chart: "we're in the mainframe" lol. Also, thanks for the kind words towards the aviation community sir. In the outro you mentioned sponsorship. I thought those things were per-channel/influencer. I didn't know sponsorships were ever really made as deals per-video. If this is the case, then that would be another possible red flag...on top of the already large mountain of red flags; "I'm spreading my friends ashes today, which I stuffed into a plastic sandwich bag so they get stuck in the corners of the bag and he becomes one with the bag... BROUGHT TO YOU BY RIDGE WALLET"
Yeah, when the engine stalls you don't just bail out of the plane. This was like the ideal scenario for a stalled engine to occur, besides being in the mountains. He was at a high altitude and would've had plenty of time to glide and troubleshoot engine issues. He's a pilot, he knows how to troubleshoot an engine failure. It's been a while since ground school, but if I recall correctly, you can: lower altitude, adjust prop speed, adjust fuel intake, increase or decrease speed, turn it off and on again, or literally anything else. One of the first things you learn before you can even fly a plane is how to troubleshoot and fix problems like this. It seems he didn't do any of the proper procedure. If he couldn't get the engine working, he still had plenty of time to look for a landing location and make an emergency landing, which is what any decent pilot would've done. Now over the mountains it would be hard to find a good place, but looking at his route and the video there looks to be places he could've, and plenty of trees to soften the blow. Hell, he probably could've glided back to a field. Again, he didn't even look for a place to set down. He didn't radio an emergency. He grabbed a go-pro and a parachute... Either this was on purpose or he didn't know enough to even be flying in the first place.
@@USRM1810 it actually works for a bunch of things that run on electricity, but it's such a simple solution that anyone who isn't in a similar field as the electronic you work with would probably think you're kidding.
Crazy thing is, he could have easily faked the stall, faked troubleshooting, and faked a "last minute save" by either fixing it at the last moment or landing it somewhere, and STILL have an "exciting video" so to speak
Man, I lost my dad to a plane crash when he was piloting a small-engine plane like that. I don’t think I can properly explain how disgusting it is to me that this guy would stage a crash for UA-cam views.
@@crypticham1053 you Trevor Jacob’s fans are clinging on for dear life. Because he could have burned down a National Forrest? Because he could have killed somebody? Because he treated an event that actually killed this man’s father as a “woaaahhh look how sick I am” stunt?
@@tater6124 now I'm not a smart ass or anything like that and I certainly ain't on Trevor's side but like "he would've killed someone" is just a word that every dumbass in the world would agree that it's plain stupid. Nobody isn't gonna magically gonna teleport to the exact crash spot that plane crashed.
@@B.N_Chicken Think, even if it didn't hit someone it could have started a fire that then killed people. People also get killed by anything and a plane crashing into them or their home isn't exempt from that list.
I'm a student pilot. One of the first things I bought was the checklist for my specific aircraft. It has start-up, run-up, takeoff, and all other procedures to act as a memory aid for pilots. It also has emergency procedures. Trevor should have reached for his checklist, instead of a Go-Pro and tried to restart the engine. If that fails, then it is almost always safer for people and property, whether on the ground or in the cabin, to make an emergency landing. Flight Instructors teach students what to look for and have them practice engine off landings at safe airports. I hope it's not a hoax, but there are a lot of factors weighing against Trevor. Thankfully, nobody got killed.
You shouldn't need to look at a checklist for emergency procedures. Get your CFI to quiz you on all of them, and review them in your head before every takeoff. Have a plan for: Engine failure on takeoff (Attempt to abort takeoff? Go straight and find a landing spot? What are good landing spots off of the extended centerline that you could make?), engine failure in flight (know exactly what you need to do to get the engine started again. Know at what altitude you will decide to restart or commit to crashing. Practice immediately getting to VBG after simulated engine failures), etc. All of the emergency procedures should be drilled into your head because when things go wrong, your brain turns to mush. On my third solo flight, quite a few years ago, I experienced detonation on climbout at 1500 feet. It's hard not to panic, and knowing exactly what to do will help you when shit hits the fan.
@@bobjohn2000 As a CFI I agree, there are indeed memory items as per the POH of any aircraft. Yet you should always go read through the emergency checklist if time permits to ensure you didn’t miss anything.
my theory is that he brought a parachute because he was flying over mountains with no place to land so he got worried i would probs bring a one too if i was flying over a area with different preaks or like height ranges idk the word for it but thats just a theory a shit*ty viral video theory would you bring a parachute if you thought you had no safe places to land over the mountains with no place to land
I cannot tell you how irresponsible this was. He crashed his plane into the California mountains, which are infamous for spontaneously combusting. This dude could have caused a massive gender reveal-level brush fire.
It's crazy to think gender reveal events pose the greatest risks to bush/forest fires than anything in history.
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@@KatSpicert it's really sad. The guy is lucky there was no fire or giant explosion that would spread.
Exactly, then the media mouthpieces would've blamed climate change anyways, as they typically do lol
You don't see it in the footage, but there was actually a man chasing him on a flying bike shooting missiles at him and that's why he had to bail.
Those damn griefers!
It was really sad too, he was doing a cargo run
@Arisa Mahera cállate la boca
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Big if true
It’s now confirmed by the FAA that he did it intentionally and he lost his pilot’s license
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Update: the FAA deemed this was intentional, permanently suspended Trevor Jacob's pilot license, and are planning on taking further legal action against him.
If you look it's revoked for only 8 months after he sent an apology letter to em.
He will prol be flying within the next year. Smh
@@whitelivesmatter.alllivesb3451 Well, damn. At least I know the FAA won't make it that easy for him. I can't find any more details, but I'll bet there were a ton of stipulations he had to meet: He would have to retake several flying classes, pay fines up the ass, and require that he flies a certain amount of hours with a co-pilot all over again. I could be wrong, but just because the FAA can't prosecute people doesn't mean they aren't super vindictive.
@@Rune3D I saw that he wrote the FFA an apology letter and I think they said his license was only suspended for 9.5 months in a email reply but I'm not sure.
@@whitelivesmatter.alllivesb3451 What ticks me off is people have got life time bans on there license for doing much less.
Imagine being on a commercial flight and then hearing: "This flight was brought to you by Raid Shadow Legends" and then the pilot fucking dips
Spirit Airlines type shit
lmfaooooo
Thats gold man lmao.
I LOVE THAT
The MSFS enthusiast in the back would be like “my time has come to show my skills”.
Guys he's just an empath, and realised his plane didn't want to fly anymore.
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Stop this madness
I'm fucking dying
XD plane just needed a safe space, it was stimming
Fun fact: if your engine fails, it is 100% possible to safely glide the plane down to the ground. It especially appears he would’ve been able to do it in this video.
There's so many places he could have landed
My friend was 18 when she died from a stalled engine. It was only two weeks after she graduated, after learning she was accepted to college on a full ride for aviation. She died alongside her instructor. Stories like this anger me because it looks so staged and he clearly didn't run through his options before bailing.
I hope his license (if he had one) is revoked indefinitely
maybe if she flew with a parachute on shed be alive long enough to pay off her school debts
It was, thank goodness
haha so funny
@@ritual_9968 cool, tell me more
@@lemonywater2979 wdym?
Private pilot here. There are so many things wrong with this as was pointed out. The thing that boggles me the most is the fact that there was no attempt to save the aircraft, whether it be by restarting the engine, conducting a forced landing somewhere. He immediately decided to just GTA bail out. He's lucky the aircraft did not cause a fire when it crashed, especially with the crash location being in an area full of super dry grass.
Literally looked exactly like when I press the wrong button in GTA V
Well if we take the approach of the whole thing being premeditated for views, the engine probably genuinely failed due to fuel starvation, which would be backed by the fact the plane had no signs of fire damage after the crash. It’s very immature of him and a very poor display of airmanship.
I have a solid 7 minutes of flight time in FSX 1906 and the fact for me that he fucking had a parachute was a giant communist red banner for me.
Hence the name "Trevor"
He just keep spamming F The entire time
Let’s appreciate the fact that he named the video “I crashed my plane.” instead of “My plane crashed.”
And his name is trevor. Why does he remind me of the absolutely nuts gta character of the same name
@@geoffreygreen7322 exactly why you think
@@geoffreygreen7322 HAHA same! The name trevor always does
He was the pilot tho.. when you crash your car you dont say, "my car crashed". You say, "I crashed my car"
@@justins30 makes sense, but still
Officer, my check engine light came on while I was driving on the highway and at 80mph so I opened my car door and bailed out! That's why I always drive with a helmet on!
This is probably insurance fraud as well, I can't imagine he'd crash his plane at his own cost. Planes sound expensive
This actually makes alot if sense, because I was thinking that the plane must be more expensive than a ridge sponsorship. Like how else would he profit from this?
@@jeremyellis6552 actually, it could be likely that the plane MIGHT be cheaper than the ridge wallet sponsership. A plane like that used is only bout 15k-25k and given that it doesn't seem to have the best avionics I'm betting its around 15k or so.
Insurance fraud to me seems unlikely to be honest.
@@brandonjustus9954 oh I had no idea planes were that cheap. Also, Maybe the ridge money isn't more than that but the potential of getting more sponsors in the future would be more money than the plane.
@@jeremyellis6552 maintenance of a plane is the expensive part of it
Who records their crap attempt at insurance fraud though
"The Pilot community is the most respectful community"
I'd assume it's because they're mostly comprised of grown and mature professionals with lots of experience handling situations with a calm and focused attitude
@ttlSen it also helps that there is a blameless culture with regards to incidents.
Generally when crashes happen, no one is named and it is treated as an investigation to work out what happened and how to stop it again in general rather than just persecuting people.
This is one of the few cases where I feel like that isn't possible.
"mature professionals"
**meowing on guard intensifies**
Nah, jokes aside though, 100% agree with you there. Flying is a highly complex activity that requires huge amounts of training and patience; those who wouldn't be inclined towards being mature and respectful in the first place usually never get to become pilots.
Every pilot I've met is the exact opposite hot headed and wants their way
It's also 100% not true, just go watch whistlin diesels videos where he bought some little junker plane
We are taught to speak a certain way but we have bigger egos than anyone really. I flew for years before becoming a counselor and you’d be surprised how instantly another pilot disarms himself from being a total dick at a hotel bar or whatever the moment I mention I was a pilot.
Ya it's strange that he didn't do anything to attempt to fix the situation. He was just like, "ok Im out". And if his defense is that he did try to fix the situation, why would did he edit that part out? I have featured 2 videos on my channel where the plane engine died and the pilots were always calm and tried to fix the situation.
Hello Mr. Daily Dose
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It is very wierd yes
That’s a good point. It makes sense to show yourself trying to fix the situation. It would give more merit to the argument that he tried to save the plane
thats crazy
Update on this story, the FAA recently ruled that he crashed his plane on purpose
I would like to point out that the particular plane that Trevor is piloting was manufactured in 1940. It did not have a starter motor so the pilot has to manually turn the propeller in order to start the engine, so restarting the engine was definitely not an option. However, he had plenty of altitude to find a safe landing. These planes have been used by bush pilots for decades, it absolutely could have managed a safe emergency landing.
Just to expand on your point for those who don't know, its a Bush Plane. The entire reason people buy these planes is that they are built specifically to maintain lift at incredibly low speeds, AND land in rough terrain.
Honestly, I heard that even with the wind and being that high up in the air, you could actually restart the engine since the prop is moving enough from the wind.
@@sebastianriz4703 You’re right as we see in the video, the prop is spinning. Also an aircraft that small and nimble you could probably land it pretty much anywhere with minor damage
@@Scooter227 Oh 100%. The Taylorcraft that he is flying has one of the best glide ratios out there. This dude genuinely could have glided back to the airport he took off from.
@@sebastianriz4703 by design yeah a lot of planes are supposed to do that even ones that can start from the inside just to give it that little push start but that doesn't mean it works all the time, but it died really fast no backfiring or anyting I would think an engine would try to push through atleast for a few seconds. but could be a fixer upper gotten for a real discount a real steal not anything he would miss....
Friendly reminder that there were people in these mountains at the time. He actually runs into people while looking for the plane afterwards. This wasnt a massive swath of empty land. This could've been deadly
That's why the pilot will usually stay in the plane to guide it to a empty patch of land. A park, road, field anything is better than just letting it drive itself
Could have started a wildfire too!!
Lock him up!
@@markmcculfor6113 California appears to be made of unlit matches and newspaper soaked in gasoline.
@@bluemoonbuffoon bruh some dude crashes plane “lOcK hIM uP”
*first tiniest indication of plane trouble*
this guy: ight imma head out
Yo Welyn! I love your rust content, you and AloneInTokyo are my go to dudes since the legend himself Ramsey doesn’t upload anymore, same with BlizzardID.
I hope you don’t get burnt out of Rust.
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This is how you fly heli Welyn... you goblin
He was probably practicing escaping tarkov
Just watched you lol didn’t take you for a moistcritcal fan
I’m no pilot, but I would assume he had several minutes to troubleshoot. Planes can glide for quite a while if you know what you’re doing.
with that altitude and possibly that weight, we would've had enough time to land at the nearest airfield or damn, even in a flat stretch of land
This is like driving on a road, having your breaks cut, and you leap out of the car and let it keep going, unmanned. And you're a car mechanic.
Use the hand brake, kill the engine, drive into something that will progressively slow you down ect ect
“That’s why I always drive with a helmet.”
I am a pilot. Spoilers, if your engine dies at that altitude, you don't immediately jump tf out lmfao. You'd only be carrying a parachute if you are doing aerobatics. Ditching a plane that is gliding level and straight at that altitude is incredibly dangerous. It could have caused serious damage or death on the ground for no good reason. He shouldn't be allowed to fly, and he is definitely going to be getting an unfortunate call given that he willingly posted himself being irresponsible and dangerous with an aircraft on the internet. The FAA has harrassed Tucker Gott for droping a roll of toilet paper from a paramotor on UA-cam; there is no way he isn't going to get heat for this.
Not to mention it could have killed him as well - he was bailing out head first, and it would take only one gasp of wind to drive this plane completely out of control (and do I have to tell to a fellow pilot, what are thousands of things that can go wrong, when a plane is out of control?).
I want to hear about this toilet paper roll now
@@salemcrow5078 I can tell you, that ULC (Civil Aviation Authority) and Polish Police put a trial against a pilot, who landed on motorway. As far as I know he got away with this, but it just shows how strict are rules about emergency landing or other things you're allowed or not as a pilot.
Government trying to govern somebody's paramotor and harassing them is one of the most annoying things I have ever read. I absolutely hate how much the government tries to control freedom. Bigger planes, sure, somebody has to make sure people get the proper instruction beforehand. But something like a paramotor that was probably built not bought? Completely egregious and obnoxious, that goes too far down.
@@PM4K I know it sounds bad, but think about those two things:
1) Not only amateur passionates (or people desperately trying to flee Polish People's Republic in 1980's) make their own planes - there are also smugglers doing this kind of thing.
2) If this plane isn't tracked, other pilots don't know where it is. There were many crashes due to that.
In this case, it's pretty OK to track planes.
He went through absolutely no engine failure protocols that we all learn in flight school, and it's so obvious
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These bots are out of hand
@@harhardave7648 actually tho, trying to report as many as possible
@@joewow1229 thats just a waste of time, they're too strong for Susan even.
It’s a huge felony. It’s seriously dangerous to mess around like this.
The pilot community is taught early and often that there is never just one factor that causes a plane to crash. Investigations take months or years and every angle is identified. In NTSB investigation reports, along with the primary cause, several contributing factors are also considered in the chain of events that lead to a crash. This is why pilots are very hesitant to jump to conclusions, even in seemingly open and shut cases. We take safety seriously, and if if we fail to consider every single contribution factor, it could very well mean that people may die in the future from a very preventable cause.
...But in this case, I think it's pretty fucking obvious that there was exactly one factor that caused the plane to crash, and that factor was the extremely rare hazard of "the person piloting the plane is a complete fuckhead"
Biggest red flag: he literally boards his plane with a parachute already on and everything. Never, absolutely never will you see a pilot literally board their plane with a parachute already on, and wear the thing throughout the flight. That’s soo uncomfortable! He did it on purpose, it’s pretty clear.
*Edit: I mean, you will never see a regular pilot, flying a none-aerobatic aircraft flying with a parachute on.
If you were at an airport waiting for a flight, and you saw a pilot walking into the plane you are about to board wearing a parachute, you'd think twice
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Course you will, aerobatics pilots wear parachute thruout all flight. Tho they have special seats and in planes like this, door should have possibility to "disconnect" to make evacuation easier. Clearly that's not aerobatics plane tho.
Yeah boarding and flying a plane with a parachute is strange and uncomfortable. If he really was out there to spread the ashes of his friend , why would he need to wear a parachute already? He done goofed
@@judasz30 did you see a special seat is this plane? Is this a earobatic plane or flight? Didn't think so
A pilots take on this:
1) correct, most pilots would be horrified to see another pilot walk to their plane with a parachute on, it would be like getting into a car with full crash gear. The only real aircraft you wear one in are military fast jets, aerobatic aircraft and prototype planes. His plane is a -piper j-3-, it is not an aerobatic aircraft
2) a plane engine out like this just isn’t really gonna happen, but sadly they still do, however if an engine is going to die, there’s normally signs beforehand like sputters/rpm drops.
3) there are checklists you do in any situation in a plane. The one any pilot should memorise and have on hand is the engine restart/hot start list. He didn’t seem to even try to reignite.
4) he was at cruise and at a very high altitude. He had more then 20 minutes of gliding time by the looks of the altitude, subject to the cameras lens.
5) granted flying a single engine over mountains is very dangerous, due to this very situation. On a mountain there’s not really many places to land, especially this plane which is not adapted for stol at all. However you can see in the video behind the planes tail flat land in the distance, which again subject to the cameras fisheye, looks to be well within gliding distance, which would allow him to save his $40,000 plane.
6) the plane looks to be in rough shape, probably wouldn’t be surprised if it was borderline airworthy just so he could do this stunt.
He wasted a plane, endangered those on the ground, risked starting a bush fire, then made that crime into a video which plays on the deceased, then slapped a fucking sponsorship on it and uploaded
Please also refer to averagealex99 and Dylan prestage’s comments as well
Edit: as correctly point out in the replies, this plane is not a piper and is indeed a taylorcraft plane. It may not have an electric start motor meaning he wouldn’t be able to restart the engine normally, however there’s a trick pilots use called windmilling to restart the engine without electric start motors. This is taught in flight schools so he shouldn’t have an excuse as to why he didn’t try that
I’ll happily reply to any question because I do love flying and love talking about it.
@@Noah-lj2sg another point, the ash there is like 1/3-1/4 of the amount of ash you’d actually get from a cremation, which means he’s still leveraging the deceased in a selfish manner
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Why are you not supposed to wear a parachute in a plane?
@@Noah-lj2sg I looked it up quickly. Apparently the guy does exist.
@@ThierryPeek unless you're going with the intention of parachuting, there's no reason to wear a parachute, you always have it stashed in the plane itself for an emergency
Gotta love how my man has time to set up the selfie stick camera while freefalling but couldn't even call tower while gliding above cruising altitude lol
Either Ridge pays really well or planes are a lot cheaper than I realize.
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That plane he was flying is about 10k lmfao
@@henrygambill8188 damn where did you see prices like that. That plane looks to be would be worth at least 25k.
@@henrygambill8188 bro probably thought he could just re-buy the same plane from the revenue off views and the sponsor
Besides committing a felony, almost potentially killing people, and well, yeah crashing a plane, this is so disrespectful to his friend who passed. Imagine sponsoring a tribute, and then crashing a plane just because you want money and views in the same exact video. It’s really fucking disgusting
Sponsoring a tribute is in itself awful.
Wait holy shit idk why i just assumed that was a lie too. You’re right he’s going around making money off of this wtfff
Thank you for mentioning that because that is SO DISGUSTING
well I mean he wasn't almost potentially killing anyone, it was an empty mountain range in the middle of nowhere and he knew that. That's like saying anyone who ever goes to a gun range is recklessly endangering everyone within their range fan
He could’ve had a really wholesome video talking about his friend and sharing stories about them and everything. But instead, he focuses on more for generating views for his dumb sponsorship. I’m sure the company that sponsored didn’t know about this in the first place, so no disrespect to them. To this individual himself, I massively, massively dislike.
In April 2022, the FAA determined that he had indeed abandoned the aircraft solely to film the crash. The FAA cited his opening of the cabin door prior to the purported engine failure; the lack of any attempt to execute an emergency landing, contact air traffic control, or restart the engine; and his personal unsupervised recovery of the onboard cameras and the aircraft wreckage, which he allegedly disposed of. The FAA revoked his private pilot certificate and ruled that he will not be permitted to apply for a new certificate for one year, stating that "your flight … [was] careless or reckless so as to endanger life or property of another".
Little update here: it’s been categorically proven he crashed his plane on purpose. What’s more, he’s facing up to 20 years in prison for this day’s clout-chasing.
a small price to pay for three million views
This really upsets me. A family member of mine was a pilot who used to take skydivers out. His engine failed and he made sure everyone got out before trying his best to make sure the plane didn’t hit houses as it was coming down. He died to make sure nobody else got hurt. His name was Brandon Sparrow. Brandon was a hero. This guy, if the crash was intentional, is a clown.
I’m really sorry to hear that. I skydive and we absolutely love our pilots, they’re like family to us. I imagine that would have been incredibly difficult for everyone who knew him. Sorry for your loss
This is the exact reason this kind of nonsense can't be tolerated.
It devalues sacrifice.
Small world, Had the pleasure of dealing with Brandon a few times and was a great man. Been a while, but sorry for your loss, time doesn't always make things easier. He got the best possible outcome from an impossible situation, he really was a hero.
worse than clown. He should get Criminal negligence at best
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I’m a CFII who flies a Taylorcraft all of the time. You’d never cruise that high in a Taylorcraft, the fuel lines weren’t connected (which you can see earlier in the video), to hear the airplane wasn’t even registered, there were no cameras on the inside of the cockpit showing him turning the fuel shutoff valve off, there was plenty of area to land (of which was an airport he could’ve easily made it to). If you have an engine failure the first thing you do is trim for best glide speed and then look for a landing spot. Then in the meantime you would call tower, approach, or guard to let them know your situation. You’d also be trying an aerial restart. Taylorcraft pilots (and like 99% of general aviation pilots except for aerobatics or warbird pilots) never wear parachutes, let alone skydiving parachutes like he was wearing. Normally you would be wearing an emergency parachute. It’s quite obvious that this guy did this for views and that it’s entirely fake. Hopefully the FAA and NTSB will get him for this and pull his license (provided he even had one). Ditching an airplane like that is incredibly irresponsible and dangerous. He could’ve killed people or damaged property. Also, he removed the cameras from the airplane before the investigators told him he could, so he’s facing serious charges for tampering with an ongoing investigation... hope my 2 cents on this helps anyone who is confused...
I was, but your comment really cleared it up for me, thanks!
Thank you for a coherent reply. From a fellow CFII 🤜
Well reasoned, clearly a subject matter expert.
Thanks for your explanation.
Scooby1961 took the analysis and lat/long, took his experimental with similar glide profile to expected altitude, and dead stick flies to Santa Inez Airport, makes left traffic downwind, turns base, turns final, and lands full stop. The video is on his YT channel.
He had a camera pointing to the cockpit
My dad was a pilot, and those guys are absolute freaks when it comes to observing logical protocols
There are literal binders full of procedures and measures that they have to memorize for every conceivable critical problem. No way this is real
And that’s why I could never be a pilot. Memorizing binders of protocol is just too much for my puny ADHD brain.
He’s expected to plead guilty and could be looking at 20 years
He got 6 months… 6 fucking months!!!!!!
I'd also like to point out that he is using a Skydiving rig, instead of the typical "bail out" rig that some pilots elect to wear. The bailout rig only has 1 parachute (skydiving rigs have 2) and also doubles as a seat cushion which is an added bonus. So yeah, it'd be more believable if he had used one of those.
Oh my god lmao
I've only watched a few minutes of this but of course it's bloody apparent that he did it on purpose, still a pretty cool video
He would face some issues if he flat out admitted to crashing the plane on purpose, but of course the viewers are not actually supposed to believe it was an accident
Pilot here to add onto your point from the other perspective. The first thing you try doing when you lose your engine is try to restart it. Not immediately fucking jump out of the plane even if you do have a parachute. That he had enough altitude to safely skydive into mountainous terrain tells me that he had way more than enough time for multiple engine restart attempts. This video is without a doubt a load of staged horseshit.
Thank you for sharing sweet sweet knowledge
Not only was he wearing a parachute which he doesn't usually do, he was also wearing a camera specifically for skydiving on his wrist. Which he uses when he does skydiving usually. He was clearly intending on going skydiving when he took off in that plane and not just spreading ashes or going for a cruise.
"never usually" Don't really go together.
@@anaalina5964 sorry i must have missed it but who asked?
@@anaalina5964 "never usually" is not common usage but can describe like things that almost never change... You could see it in the sports / athletics world. I see no point in trying to give specific examples because "never usually" is perfectly acceptable. He never usually wears a parachute. That makes perfect sense. Never usually. But this time.
@@thisisgettingold you are absolutely correct, best of luck with the rest of your time here on earth
@@sydbarrett5693 hopefully not too much longer
In April 2022, the FAA determined that he crashed it on purpose and revoked his flying certificate.
Yep, the FAA has ruled that he deliberately crashed the plane
My father, a lifelong pilot:
“He had unlimited options to land. That wasn’t part of his plan. What an idiot”
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@@ertretyutuu6358 report these bots
TBF judging by the terrain, landing wouldn’t be fun, let alone easy, if possible
@@richardhobbs7360 If you fly the plane all the way into the crash site, you have an extremely high chance of surviving. This is all disregarding the highly suspicious detail of him wearing a full skydiving rig though...
@@tater6124 my man. more users reporting = more fire under google's ass. i'm ashamed to admit it but i spend like an hour of my free time every day bot-hunting, and at least 1/3rd of my time is on this channel's comments
The fact he had time to *SET UP A SELFIE STICK* instead of saving or restarting the plane immediately proves its suspicion
And he had time to put all those cameras, but didn't have time to check weather and routine inspection of the engine.
When you’re genuinely scared for your life you leave every behind
he could have easily saved and restarted from the last checkpoint smh
@@RoberttSmithh if ur first instinct as a pilot is to ditch the plane u probably don't have a pilots license. The Golden rule is that you stay in the plane and fly that thing as long as possible
@@RoberttSmithh everything except for your selfie stick and go-pro aww yeah
Charlie is the only guy I don’t get mad at when he’s says “oh I’ve already seen this” because you know he’s not lying
He just pleaded guilty to it and now hes possibly facing 20 years in prison.
I’m a Student Pilot and what Trevor did honestly irritates me because had this situation been real, he could’ve done SO much more to prevent a crash. We have procedures for engine failures, they’re not so dangerous that it’s reason to jump out of the plane or give up on any chance to save the plane. It’s so obviously faked for attention and validation. Really disappointed by this
holy shit
its all bots
"A pilot always goes down with his ship"
True. I also feel that this could easily have caused a wild fire by looking at how dry the grass is in the area at the crash site.
People will do anything for 15 minutes of fame
The fact that his name is Trevor and that he bailed out of a plane is so fucking funny to me. Literally straight out of GTA
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Lmfao i thought so too
@@Loperamides I despise Dream with evey fiber of my being, you're only making it worse
He’s also bald. The fucking irony.
Difference is Trevor (from GTA) I think is a legitimate pilot or at least very well self trained.
Update, he lost his pilot’s license! Serves him right!
He should get more he could have killed some one with this stupid stunt.
I'm surprised that he's not in prison considering that his actions could've possibly killed innocent people
Dude changed the title of the video thinking that the FBI still won’t take him to court
I’d crash a plane for a Raid Shadow Legends sponsorship.
frick the bots man
I'd crash a plane into these bots.
@@ImSoCold.... 😐 Terrible idea...Reminds me of that tragedy.
@@snickle1980 Dont think of real people dying from terrorists. These are bots. We need to destroy them.
lol
Wasn't prepared to run the checklist, but was, completely, prepared to film his egress.
This is all the information you need to pass judgment.
He neglects to mention the fact that the guy collects ALL the GoPros for the footage.
views> checklists
I also realized he did not call a mayday to atc either
@@graysonkking Yep. The NTSB is going to investigate this (they investigate all plane crashes in the US) and they'll find that he didnt call mayday and didnt run any standard restart procedures. He's going to lose his pilots license over this and I'd be very surprised if he didn't.
Please tell me you are joking its literally a stunt for nitro circus maybe bother to search up the guys name next time
This aged so well.
If you pause at 5:39 you can actually see a fire extinguisher hidden under his pants. seriously this guy is toast
I am a Certified Flight Instructor, and there's just so many weird things happening here.
1. The aircraft is a Taylorcraft which is a bush airplane. What this means is that the plane can land in a short distance. Like your car would probably take longer to stop than this airplane, so he could have landed on any somewhat flat area there. Also, this plane has crazy glide performance, and at the altitude he was at he could have turned back and glided back to any airport in the region.
2. He hid the tail number of the airplane which says to me that he's trying to hide the registration of the plane.
3. As a pilot, you're federally mandated to report any aircraft crash that results in the loss of the airplane, and it seems that he hasn't done this at all, and the first thing we've known about the crash is his video.
4. Not only does this guy put on a parachute for what is a mundane flight, but also he wears a skydiving rig into the airplane with cameras. I've worn parachutes for aerobatics before, and they're light functional and without any place to attach a camera. Also the dude jumps out with a flipping selfie stick.
5. He doesn't resort back to his training and go through the ABCDE's of engine failure. Fails to establish airspeed for best glide, fails to find best place to land, fails to go through the engine failure checklist and restart the engine, and fails to declare an emergency on his radio. Instead he decides that the best course of action is to ditch the aircraft and jump out.
Now I get that emergencies are very stressful and you can forget things, but either this pilot is extremely reckless and faked an accident or he is so deficient in his skills and knowledge that he should never fly again. However, I do have to say it's not every day you get to witness a plane crash from the prospective of the airplane and that was super dope.
Couple things (just a lowly PPL (ASEL) TW here): 2 - At least in my experience flying older aircraft similar to this (champs and cubs), those tiny tail numbers are not uncommon and I believe there is an FAA regulation that permits aircraft registered before a certain date to keep the smaller font. 3 - I think that he did report the crash to the NTSB, and there are unconfirmed reports that they are investigating. In any case, I and probably many others emailed the local FSDO after the crash, so he definitely on their radar. 5 - One thing that is 100% off and he has no excuse for is the lack of an ELT activation. If I realize that I can't restart the aircraft, the ELT is going on. The reason I find this so damning is that every aircraft has an ELT, and there's no way that he can claim a broken radio, no transponder, etc.
Hit the nail on the head there bud. He didn’t even attempt to use any of his training in an attempt to troubleshoot the aircraft. There is literally no excuse for it and I guarantee the FAA will use this point amongst other things to revoke his license.
In short: extremely dumb, super irresponsible, but it looked cool
@@bobjohn2000 As someone who used to be a part of Civil Air Patrol in California and was on the ground teams for Search and Rescue... An ELT should have gone off no matter what. Those things are super sensitive that even a hard landing can set them off.... scary part is that I still have friends and family who are apart of CAP that I heard about a Class A mission around this time while on the phone with my family... Sadly enough I think it is this. I don't know of all the details and such due to being no longer apart of it. But from the perspective of an old Search and Rescue guy... Im glad no one got hurt... And Im really hoping this wasn't a PR stunt...
Now that's what i call a certified Flight Instructor moment
As a private pilot, I can assure you that he made NO effort to save the plane, ran NO checklists or bold face items. He did it for views. Also, he would never wear a parachute unless performing aerobatics or carrying parachuters.... Or planning a views stunt
N11
Kind of wild to think Sun Tzu knew how to pilot a plane, but stranger things have happened.
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SO MANY BOTS HOLY SHIT💀
Look like u still need training cus you clearly can't see he tried his best but ur blind eyes can't see
Who’s here from the future where we know the truth?
"So what's the next step in your master plan?"
-"Crashing my career... WITH NO SURVIVORS!"
Not only is this insanely dangerous, he also used his friends death for clout
This situation great example of why deleting dislikes is really really annoying
Amen brother
There's a third party tool to re-enable it, not sure if it somehow gets the dislike data from youtube or has its own database, its called return youtube dislike, the video in question has 4.6k likes to 26k dislikes as of right now
@@lukeciantar2239 Ive heard its not really "returning" dislikes but rather taking data from those channels from when dislikes were a thing and getting an average like-to-dislike ratio & plastering it to the newer videos.
So if a video has 10k likes and the youtuber had an average 90% like ratio before the change, the extension would add 1k dislikes to the newer videos.
Or i could be completely wrong and im being a dumbfuck
@@mashucha it doesn’t even work anymore
@@mashucha On the 10th of November, they made the dislike count private on the site. On the 13th December they also removed the ability to grab the amount of dislikes with other methods, like by writing programs to ask the UA-cam server for the dislike count of a video. So the official dislike count for each video is currently not available for anyone, other than the creator of the video itself, UA-cam or a third party that is allowed to view them.
Since there is now no way to get the official count without being verified to do so, the extension does more or less what you said. It attempts to create a dislike count that is as accurate as possible (by preventing bot attacks, keeping track of when you clicked a dislike button (anonymously), using previously collected stats, ...)
I think that they recently added a way for creators to share their dislike counts voluntarily. Interesting stuff...
It's really bad that behavior like this gets rewarded, because it acts as an incentive for the clout chasers to do more and more dangerous things to top this one.
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@GachaJulica You serious dude? I smell hypocrisy. 🤨
Next person will do this in a city
I guarantee you some couple will try a Gender reveal party like this and something will go horribly wrong
What I think is a damn shame is that aircraft was made in the 1940s. I don't know shit about planes either but it looked like a beautiful little aircraft
Bro flies planes the same way I do in GTA. Get super high, stall it out, let it drop for a bit, jump
He should've left a ridge wallet in the plane, so that when he gets to the crash site he can show off how strong it is
Advertising works.
@@freedomgoddess Fr
@@freedomgoddess And netted himself a felony and revocation of his flying license? Seems like a shitty trade to me.
@@HeroKiro if he's gonna get it anyways, may as well make some money off the stunt. Zero chance he manages to fly under the radar with this.
@@Kraus- yeah
PPL holder here (Private Piolt Licence)
Basicly general avation licence to fly small planes like this one.
Thank you Charlie for doing your research before making the video. You covered all the suspicions points.
- GA Pilots almost never wear parachutes, it's very rare in general aviation to hear of someone wearing a parachute.
- We didn't see footage inside the cockpit of the dashboard. We can't see the RPM, engines temperature. (Could have run out of fuel as fuel gauges on old planes are basicly trash. Also fuel line block wouldn't show up on the dash.) Still very suspicious we don't see inside view.
- Restarting and trouble shooting - basically just yeeted himself out without set a nice gliding angle and seeing if he can restart the engine.
- Bailing out, most pilots would attempt to land the plane with no power. Depending on the land it's very doable.
I wounder if he made any ATC (Air Traffic Control) calls?
How will the CCA (Civil Aviation Authority) react if they see this video?
please tell me more
I’m curious, why not fly with a parachute? Even if that’s the last resort it seems to me like you might as well have it ready just in case
@@ZachPlum that’s what I’m wondering
@@ZachPlum because that would be an excuse for every pilot, like Trevor jacob, to just jump out of their aircraft just because there is a hint of danger. Too many aircraft would be lost and not trying to do anything to save the aircraft could potentially injure people on the ground.
Why don't they generally wear a parachute ? Is "staying alive" not on the check list ?
When you play Just Cause 2 one time
I feel like if the plane you're flying is starting to fail, you'd be a *little* more concerned.
Im convinced the pilot community is so nice to balance out how strict and mean the FAA can be about procedure and paperwork.
Except when it comes to the private planes of the financial elite
@@hando- Facts but that’s everything
@@hando- I'm pretty sure they have some regulation as well.
mean ? Where is your evidence that they are mean about it ?
@@mizzury54 Nice try FAA
Even the way the guy is talking is enough, there is ZERO real stress or panic in his voice, this was clearly not an event that caught him by surprise in any way at all.
Eh, pilots usually are pretty calm in situations like this but they never just bail from the plane lol
@@snacksnake7418 Oh, yeah it wasn't just that he was "calm", it was that how he was talking and acting didn't match his emotions. He kept saying things like "oh shit", "oh god" etc, basically talking like if he was reading from a super dramatic movie script the whole time, but with zero actual emotions. A truly stressed out person wouldn't be that void of real emotions, and a calm person wouldn't be talking like that in the first place, so it just doesn't add up.
As a pilot, I wouldn't probably stress out, since something going wrong is a thing I must constantly think about, but engine ,,mulfunction" doesn't convince me.
Not to mention engine mulfunction is kinda preventable - of course, not always (there are always some random surprises), but in most cases you can pretty much estimate a risk.
@@Admiral45-10 I would imagine that you wouldnt be stressing out, knowing you are flying a plane with a hella good glide ratio. (10:1 I believe.)
@@sebastianriz4703 it seems like it, but it's also not that easy - of course, I have some margin to work on, but this also includes turning and decreases as I open flaps. I must always plan this landing cite as close as possible, or I wouldn't be flying over certain place at all. That's what we, pilots, are supposed to do - avoid unnecesary risk, making plane the safest meaning of transport known to mankind (falling off a bed is more lethal than flying a plane).
As I'm thinking more about this now, I feel like this parachute jump could have been illegal as well - to perform a stunt you need a special permittion and you have to perform it without violating active air zones (or those, in which it's simply prohibited). So, he:
- performed a stunt without permittion
- didn't make any attempt to save a plane
- crashed a plane
- risked someone's life
You know what, maybe Aviation Law isn't my strong subject, but I feel like they mentioned it on course, that first felony is 10 years at least in Poland.
His private pilots license just got revoked, following an internal investigation from the FAA :)
Student pilot here:
You covered the biggest issues which alone make this obviously a crash intended to happen. Every time before I fly, because I'm a student pilot, I have to tell my instructor what I'm going to do if the engine fails at x altitude or facing x direction. I have spent weeks studying what to do in all sorts of emergency scenarios, and I have been told that even if the cockpit is on fire, you bring the plane down to the ground and land ASAP. There are 0 situations in which one would be justified in jumping out of a plane unless one had predetermined and planned a skydive before even takeoff.
My opinion is that the owner of the plane either had some major issues with the plane, and got some really good insurance, and decided they would be pulling an insurance scam and getting some views out of it while they were at it. I'd be surprised if this person manages to get even a drone in the air for at least a month, if ever again, let alone a plane. The FAA is one of the toughest and strictest organizations a civilian can mess with, and messing with the FAA is a guaranteed pain in the ass.
Next time your instructor asks you to tell them the engine out procedures, show him the clip of jumping out
The FAA should peruse all legal actions open to them. This could have killed someone. There needs to be zero tolerance for screwing around like this.
@@FreedomFox1 pursue?
@@sithisdawnsend2730 Yeah, tablet likes to change words on me.
@@StrokeMahEgo yes 😂
My dad is a pilot and he agrees this is clearly staged, he always says that altitudes and speed save lifes, referring to plane malfunctions ofc, this guy had both of those, even if the plane didn't restart at any point he could have glided to safety till he found a place to land and even if he didn't parachuting would be the last option, hope this guy gets the right punishment
The right punishment is a revoking of his license and a pretty hefty fine. That’s probably why he got a sponsor.
@@brotherc8993 I guess that depends on a few things…did he file an insurance claim? What did he tell the feds? Lying to the feds is illegal.
Fine him, pull his ticket, and prosecute him for any criminal actions. UA-cam needs to take action too…they ban creators all of the time and they need to ban this “creator” as well.
Another working theory: he purposefully didnt fuel up a sufficient amount for his flight plan to fake an engine failure. Evidence that supports this: the plane didnt burst into flames upon crashing, signifying the lack of fuel in the engine.
I saw that too. But you're wrong. His fuel tank was friends with Amber Heard and had enhanced regeneration capabilities.
my dad is a pilot and some other inconsistencies that he pointed out is that a pilot would usually never fly that type of plane at that altitude, it would take forever to get where he's going and hed just run out of/waste fuel. hes about 9000 feet in the air, and considering the location of the engine fail he could have easily glided back to the airport (or at least out of the mountains) and land safely. its really a miracle that his plane didnt end up in a neighborhood.
Not to mention, if he purposely crashed his plane, He did so in one of the worst wildfire areas in the country.
They're gunna make his sorry arse carry that busted plane out of there too? Whole thing isn't something you can just dump in the wilderness
I reckon he flew it till ran outta fuel so wouldn’t start fire!! Insurance job OR sponsor paid him 100-200 k or more and plane is only 50k maybe!!
I’m not a pilot but my father is, been one for 45 years. I showed him the video and I’ve honest to God never seen him so disappointed. He legit asked me how he could contact the UA-camr to ask what the hell was going through his head lmao
tell him he can flag the video for unapropiate behaviour :D
@@TheCivildecay Unapropiate is my new favorite word
Would have been funnier if it was a hot air balloon. ‘oh! The burner is busted!’ **Bails**
You hit the nail on the head with this one. First, with the fact that nobody flies with a parachute, and second, the fact that when you experience an engine failure in a single-engine, you’re immediate action is to pitch for best glide speed, Identify the best place to land, and attempt engine restart IAW your aircraft’s checklist. As you point out, we don’t see him do any of this. When it comes to his statement of “nowhere to land” that aircraft (I believe it’s a Taylorcraft A series) only requires about 500 feet to land on a bad day. He probably could have found somewhere to set it down especially because he has a lot of time at that altitude. Then there’s the aircraft he was flying. That is one of the cheapest airplanes you can buy used, as of right now there are 3 Taylorcraft on trade-a-plane (kind of like Craigslist for airplanes) all for less than 20k. Whistlindiesel actually bought one a few months ago just to destroy on his property. If you were going to intentionally crash a plane, that would be the most affordable one to do it in.
As a non-expert the thing that seems most fishy to me is how ready he was to film his descent. Assuming this was an unexpected emergency, why on earth would he have a handheld camera for the jump. If he did genuinely bail because it was an emergency, he wouldn't have thought to film it until afterwards
There is nothing "fishy", it's obvious right from the get go, just by watching the clip once, you see that of course it was done on purpose
He's in the middle of nowhere, got a parachute, all cameras set up, jumped from a nice altitude, etc etc. Everything should be obvious to anyone
Yeah. Pilot youtubers don't have selfie sticks in the cockpit. They mount their gopros on the dash or something. This is so sus.
True it dumb
@@SiisKolkytEuroo "Most fishy" meaning more than the rest, but let me rephrase - the most glaring and obvious thing to me personally on a first viewing. Tbf it's possible to be at cruising altitude in the middle of nowhere when genuine emergencies happen, and if you're a UA-camr all the cameras would be set up anyway (apart from the handheld one). You're right the parachute alone makes it obvious even before he jumped but that wasn't the first thing that occurred to me.
I have a huge respect for the agricultural community
Lol
I dont
Alan Titchmarsh.
I do
Alright.
If you say "this is why I always have a parachute" you have no business being a pilot
The way he bails out definitely seems suspicious. In the aircraft, there’s always a checklist you use in normal operations, and in emergencies but the fact he didn’t think to even run a quick checklist to attempt to save it is weird. Also almost no pilots wear parachutes when they fly, there are very few instances where it is a legal requirement to wear one, but outside of that, nobody does
Internet fame is like a disease. Can’t believe people will go this far for some views. Looks like his plan worked though, just in the worst way possible.
Well his channel is riddled with hate comments now so was it worth it
It is a disease.
I mean yeah he is definitely getting now more views thanks to Jesus
exactly
Fame is everything
I'm a student pilot, and I really feel like there was so much more he should've/could've done. Not only was he at a high enough altitude to run safety checks (which he very likely did not do), but he didn't try to actually save the aircraft at all, which puts people on the ground in grave danger and leaves you with a totaled plane. He should have tried to at least restart the engine, and if that failed, look for somewhere to get the plane down safely. It might still get damaged, but its better than getting the whole aircraft destroyed + harming whoever/whatever is on the ground. It just bothers me he didn't even attempt any of these procedures and ditched without a second thought
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But he’s not going to do any of these because he crashed it on purpose. It would ruin a viral video
Same, I’m a student pilot too
@@smoosty_ Nice. I'm 16 and just got my student pilots license a week or two ago.
You've still got much to learn young buck, in GTA we bail out for something as small as a bug squashed on the windshield.
he deleted the sponsorship thing from his description, I hope that means he lost the sponsorship
The pressing the wrong button to get out of the plane in a video game joke made me laugh so hard
This is either the most unbelievable confluence of unlikely events to have ever occured on-film, or an incredibly obvious stunt that could land this guy in the deepest of shits.
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It’s like the dream cheating thing lol
@@jjcoola998 except here people could've died. Don't like dream but not fully on the same level
@u a They meant the odds, not the severity.
Please tell me you are joking its literally a stunt for nitro circus maybe bother to search up the guys name next time
It is scary how dangerous this situation could have gotten. Also, really didn’t honor his friend at all huh?
Guy though he was still playing gta 5 🤣
I'm pretty sure he made up some sap story about his "friend" who probably never existed to make the plane crash more exciting
@@jorgesaenz8986 This hurt to read. Literally was thinking about this event earlier today and was half paying attention starting this video only to then turn to see this is Johnny Strange's friend. He was some daredevil or something who did tons of wingsuit flight stunts and stuff. Well he and his friend went somewhere to do it like they've done before, but when they jumped, he dove wrong or something and fell to his death. His friend knew Johnny just died but was in a wingsuit and thousands of feet in the air. It was all on GoPro video and his reaction and emotions while in the sky were haunting.
rewatching it, the friend with Johnny wasn't the guy with him when he died, so that's extra fucked up he's milking his death.
@@regulusvii well shit, I didn't know the friend actually existed but dam does it make it worse
@@regulusvii Yet base jumping wingsuit stunt flying is one of the most deadly kinds of things you can do. Literally all base jumping wingsuit people say they lost a lot of friends doing it and eventually they even end up dead. I personally think it isn't sad when they are knowingly going out to do something insanely dumb that has a extremely high risk of death. The deaths are also experienced wingsuit flyers so can't blame ignorance or inexperience. They need to stop doing base jumping with wingsuits.
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Are we talking like...a regional restaurant money or RAID Shadow Legends money.
Ridge I'd think about it tho.
Edit: Just because his engine cut out, he can still glide it and control the flaps, even if the engine completely failed you can clearly see the wheels on his craft weren't retractable, he can still control the pitch and yaw while looking for a flat area with no chance of actually hurting anyone. He could have maybe even landed the plane, depending on the winds.
After watching Trent Palmer's reaction to it, he pointed out some things I honestly missed
Loose fuel line
His parachute is the sort for skydiving, not the kind a pilot would use in an emergency
His door was open by about 2 inches before the engine cut out
He rocked the plane back and forth after the engine cut out, which only serves to make the propeller stop quicker, you can even see the propeller spins as the plane is going down
Why did he follow the plane in the air as it was crashing?
There looks to be flat ground aplenty that he could have landed on
My former roommate/landlord/roomlord was a pilot, little single props like that, and you’re right Charlie, they are one of the most respectful/polite communities.
The pilot community is wholesome as fuck, as a pilot in training, I've only ever had one bad encounter with a fellow pilot, and that's because he couldn't make a radio call to save his life and caused me a lot of stress, given it was my second solo flight ever.
The rest of the comment section seems to support your claim
Who would have guessed that the people who work with transportation that moves across 3 dimensions on the middle of the sky where if something larger than a pebble with more density than a cotton ball hits somewhat other than 20% of the plane that isn't essential you might have to make an emergency landing would be level headed
The men my age so far love to toot their own horn and sometimes cut me off to talk, but anyone older than that yea same sentiments
@@annabobanaasmr8411 FEE FI FO FANNA. ANNA!
Man, this guy really didn't think thru making this crash look legit and not staged:
-At 2:36 in the original video you can see the door looks entirely closed with the handle pointed straight down. At 2:43 when the engine just begins to slow down, you can see the door is already open, and the handle is rotated up towards the rear of the aircraft. Clearly getting ready to jump out before the engine is even all the way off (haven't seen this mentioned anywhere else)
-Boards aircraft with parachute already strapped on. Unheard of unless you plan to jump out the plane before you ever leave the ground.
-Has multiple other videos showing him flying without a parachute, contradicting claim he "always wears a parachute"
-Strange that he clearly had all these staged cameras and even one in the cockpit, yet there is no video of the failure or any troubleshooting. Very very odd not to show the moment of failure and ensuing drama, which if real would certainly have been included. Not just because it is certainly one of the most interesting / critical parts of any aviation crash, but would make for a better/more popular video.
-Pilots confirm there appear to be some possible landing spots in the video. Equally strange that none of this decision-making was included in the video. Again, he shows the process of freaking out because obviously the drama is good for the video, but doesn't show the process of talking with ATC and ultimately coming to the decision of ditching the aircraft.
-Has GoPro on a selfie stick, ready to film himself parachuting. Almost like he was prepped for one of his regular skydiving videos.
Compiled all this, saved the videos to google drive, and reported to the FAA. Hope this dude is never allowed to pilot again.
What I don’t understand about the landing part is that he is over mountains. Not just that but with that altitude he would of have to pick up a lot of speed. (I’m not a pilot so I assume the air breaks still work without the engine?)
@@MrFriendlyCsgoContent there are maneuvers to land a plane with complete engine failure at almost any flying altitude.
@@MrFriendlyCsgoContent as Long as you can fly the plane , with or without engine it won’t matter bc you would’ve been trained for exactly these kinds of events .. this guy could have landed in a lot of spots but that’s not the point anyway so yeah
@@MrFriendlyCsgoContent usually small planes like those don't have airbrakes in the technical sense. Where I fly, most pilots pretty much need a mountain rating when flying outside of gliding distance from the prairies. You would be taught the proper landing locations in an event like that when you take the course. I haven't yet, so I can't speak if that behalf. As for the altitude, some maneuvers are figure 8s and forward slips. Figure 8 is done when you are very high and have a good location in sight. Forward slip is where you point the nose of the plane away from the direction it is going to make a lot of drag. This is good if you are quite high but not enough for figure 8s. Flaps are used to increase glide angle and decrease approach speed. Usually you should land with full flaps using a soft field technique.
@@zacharytaylor190 Thank you for the reply mate much appreciated!
I’m a student pilot and have been following this crazy story for a few days now. I just found your video. You have a new subscriber. You are hilarious. I love your comments about this jackass, and about the aviation community. Fabulous
“bro press triangle for a speed boost”
Dude, the wording you use while explaining stuff is absolutely hilarious. Please never stop making me giggle.
Fancy seeing you here! Love your channel bro.
WHOA SJVT gets down with charlie too! Good company here
Giggle?
He’s like a Razorfist if he wasn’t as angry
@Kukinoyona Gay
I’m a flight instructor in Tennessee and there is so much wrong with the way this emergency was handled. He should have made sure the plane was completely totaled because the post crash analysis from the NTSB will find out what happened. If you want flight lessons Charley let me know haha
what is it like being a flight instructor in tennessee?
@@ohboy9077 Its a hell of a ride! Students always trying to kill you, but wouldn’t rather being doing anything other than flying!
Neat! I live and Tennessee and have been considering taking the steps to get a pilot's license
@@fadec6410 Going to an airline after bud? Just earned my CFI in December and working on my CFII, and it sure is shocking what some students end up doing.
That’s crazy! I’m a flight student in Tennessee. Small world
Aeronautical chart: "we're in the mainframe" lol. Also, thanks for the kind words towards the aviation community sir. In the outro you mentioned sponsorship. I thought those things were per-channel/influencer. I didn't know sponsorships were ever really made as deals per-video. If this is the case, then that would be another possible red flag...on top of the already large mountain of red flags; "I'm spreading my friends ashes today, which I stuffed into a plastic sandwich bag so they get stuck in the corners of the bag and he becomes one with the bag... BROUGHT TO YOU BY RIDGE WALLET"
*"possibly" is the biggest understatement i ever heard* 😂
Yeah, when the engine stalls you don't just bail out of the plane. This was like the ideal scenario for a stalled engine to occur, besides being in the mountains. He was at a high altitude and would've had plenty of time to glide and troubleshoot engine issues. He's a pilot, he knows how to troubleshoot an engine failure. It's been a while since ground school, but if I recall correctly, you can: lower altitude, adjust prop speed, adjust fuel intake, increase or decrease speed, turn it off and on again, or literally anything else. One of the first things you learn before you can even fly a plane is how to troubleshoot and fix problems like this. It seems he didn't do any of the proper procedure. If he couldn't get the engine working, he still had plenty of time to look for a landing location and make an emergency landing, which is what any decent pilot would've done. Now over the mountains it would be hard to find a good place, but looking at his route and the video there looks to be places he could've, and plenty of trees to soften the blow. Hell, he probably could've glided back to a field. Again, he didn't even look for a place to set down. He didn't radio an emergency. He grabbed a go-pro and a parachute... Either this was on purpose or he didn't know enough to even be flying in the first place.
Good to know pilots also use the one fix all trick "Turning it off and on again"
@@DeadlyBlaze I mean, it does work
so true, in the worst case scenario he could glided to a place where the ground was even (like a dry river or a plain) and try to crashland it there
@@USRM1810 it actually works for a bunch of things that run on electricity, but it's such a simple solution that anyone who isn't in a similar field as the electronic you work with would probably think you're kidding.
Crazy thing is, he could have easily faked the stall, faked troubleshooting, and faked a "last minute save" by either fixing it at the last moment or landing it somewhere, and STILL have an "exciting video" so to speak
Man, I lost my dad to a plane crash when he was piloting a small-engine plane like that. I don’t think I can properly explain how disgusting it is to me that this guy would stage a crash for UA-cam views.
Yea but why are you angry that he crashed a plane
@@crypticham1053 you Trevor Jacob’s fans are clinging on for dear life.
Because he could have burned down a National Forrest?
Because he could have killed somebody?
Because he treated an event that actually killed this man’s father as a “woaaahhh look how sick I am” stunt?
@@crypticham1053 It's a felony
@@tater6124 now I'm not a smart ass or anything like that and I certainly ain't on Trevor's side but like "he would've killed someone" is just a word that every dumbass in the world would agree that it's plain stupid. Nobody isn't gonna magically gonna teleport to the exact crash spot that plane crashed.
@@B.N_Chicken Think, even if it didn't hit someone it could have started a fire that then killed people. People also get killed by anything and a plane crashing into them or their home isn't exempt from that list.
It's like the guy went out of his way to make his video as suspicious as hell.
It's like buying fire insurance for your truck then lighting it on fire the next day.
I'm a student pilot. One of the first things I bought was the checklist for my specific aircraft. It has start-up, run-up, takeoff, and all other procedures to act as a memory aid for pilots. It also has emergency procedures. Trevor should have reached for his checklist, instead of a Go-Pro and tried to restart the engine. If that fails, then it is almost always safer for people and property, whether on the ground or in the cabin, to make an emergency landing. Flight Instructors teach students what to look for and have them practice engine off landings at safe airports. I hope it's not a hoax, but there are a lot of factors weighing against Trevor. Thankfully, nobody got killed.
You shouldn't need to look at a checklist for emergency procedures. Get your CFI to quiz you on all of them, and review them in your head before every takeoff. Have a plan for: Engine failure on takeoff (Attempt to abort takeoff? Go straight and find a landing spot? What are good landing spots off of the extended centerline that you could make?), engine failure in flight (know exactly what you need to do to get the engine started again. Know at what altitude you will decide to restart or commit to crashing. Practice immediately getting to VBG after simulated engine failures), etc. All of the emergency procedures should be drilled into your head because when things go wrong, your brain turns to mush. On my third solo flight, quite a few years ago, I experienced detonation on climbout at 1500 feet. It's hard not to panic, and knowing exactly what to do will help you when shit hits the fan.
@@bobjohn2000 As a CFI I agree, there are indeed memory items as per the POH of any aircraft. Yet you should always go read through the emergency checklist if time permits to ensure you didn’t miss anything.
All of this was obviously planned in advance, no need for any checklist
my theory is that he brought a parachute because he was flying over mountains with no place to land so he got worried i would probs bring a one too if i was flying over a area with different preaks or like height ranges idk the word for it but thats just a theory a shit*ty viral video theory
would you bring a parachute if you thought you had no safe places to land over the mountains with no place to land
Congrats on your flying. How far along are you now? I’m a CFI in the Texas area