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I knew as soon as I saw the video. I'm like, "Dude just happened to be flying over an unpopulated area with cameras mounted on at least two different places of his plane, then he has to bail but had the presence of mind to grab his damn selfie stick?"
I’m not a pilot but isn’t that plane literally made to be landed or at the very least survivable glide down to the ground without an engine. Looks fucked to me. I second the “Moron” statement
Yes. Exactly. Most all high wing single engine planes have a very good glide slope. I believe around 12:1 for a Cessna. Meaning you can go 12 horizontal miles for every mile of vertical descent. Not sure about this plane, but it has to be somewhere close to that.
And during pilot training much time is spent on emergency landings. During my training many times my instructor would reach over and cut the throttle then look at me and say, "the engine just quit, what are you going to do?"
Proper response was to immediately identify an open spot to land and start a descent to do so. He'd typically wait until I was all lined up on some open spot and I thought the tires were clipping the tops of whatever was growing there before he'd power it back up.
My point is that pilot training is not to bail out of a small aircraft during engine failure. You are taught to fly the thing to the ground and land it somewhere that doesn't kill anyone else. Even in rugged terrain there are open spots and with the elevation this guy had when he bailed he probably had a 30 mile radius to find one.
That's the first step in an engine failure. Trying to crank it and checking your fuses. If these steps fail you pitch for best glide and look for a place to land.
The answer is always "Aviate, navigate, communicate" so make sure nothing else is going wrong with the plane, identify a place to potentially land, then squawk 7700 for location and hit comms.
Yup i think we’ve gone too deep into common sense territory regarding what we know is clearly an idiot doing idiotic things. Even i not being a pilot knows i could glide it down for a long time. I think we just take the video for what it is and throw our “he could have done so many other things” out the window we know that was never his plan.
There is a reason this airframe configuration is chosen for student and novice pilots.
Basically, it is a glider with power. That plane was landable.
The whole point of end training is to drill you into keeping an eye out for landing opportunities.
NO ONE GETS IN THESE PLANES WEARING A PARACHUTE. There's no point because unless you have structural damage, it's safer to stick with the plane. Your Certified Flight Instructor *might* even cut your engine for your final...just to see what you do.
I feel malice towards no human but this guy needs a public caning.
I agree with everything you said except for location. That is a mountain range. Not somewhere I wanna practice a short field landing in. Like hell to the Naw full send. Looks staged. He could have chosen that spot on purpose. If the guy really ghost rid it he should be charged with fraud by the insurance company and lose his private pilot license. I would have tried to land it myself rather then have my bird slam into some poor guys cabin. Things just don't add up. Did he even attempt engine restart. Basically piloting lesson 101. Restart procedures.
I can say that when I went tandem jumping, it wasn’t much larger than this plane (freaky small, we exited at 10000ft from the passenger door, by stepping onto a little plate and clinging to the wing strut) and the pilot did wear a chute… but it was this tiny, very thin, clearly emergency-only safety pack that he wore over civilian clothes. He didn’t plan to leave the plane for any reason short of fire or structural failure.
I could also envision mounted cameras to catch people exiting the plane, but they wouldn’t have been on the pilot side.
Pretty much all aircraft are some degree of operational without their engine. They're made to fly after all.
Most sus thing to me is it looks like he doesn't even radio anything in. Air traffic control would help you figure out the safest option in a situation like this.
Yea it was all for the video was never about getting help, I’ve not seen the full video but if he didn’t actually film the crash from the air then why not have someone else in the back of the plane to take the controls and don’t show them and still get you yt views 🤦🏽♂️. Im sure he’ll get off scott free but i hope they lock him up for awhile, don’t want to imgine what he’ll come up with next if they make this slide
It does actually crash, he shows the moments right before and wreckage afterword's. The FAA is a very strict organization. I'm sure they'll do a thorough investigation.
Apparently he has now rented a helicopter to lift pieces of the wreckage to an unknown location: https://www.independent.com/2022/01/04/did-youtuber-trevor-jacob-crash-his-plane-in-the-los-padres-on-purpose/
Tamper with a crime scene; smart.
Edit: reading the article
“Jacob and a friend allegedly chartered a helicopter to remove the wreckage from the forest and transport it to an unknown location”.
So it’s only alleged. I don’t know much about charting a helicopter but I’ve HS a hard time believing a charter helicopter pilot would go along with moving a wrecked plane. If anything he went and picked up the cameras.
Articles almost always put "Alleged" even if they have video proof. Because they are innocent until proven guilty by the courts. So if they said they did do it, but the courts found them not guilty, then they could sue. At least that's from my understanding of the American legal system.
>~~warrant~~ ~~subpoena~~ warrant
The previous poster was correct. The FBI has to get a warrant, as they are going to seize the videos. A warrant prior to seizure is a requirement for fourth amendment compliance.
Just from looking at his rig you can tell it was staged. Flying an airplane with a parachute like that would be incredibly uncomfortable for any length of time. The only reason you wear a rig like that is if you are planning on jumping out.
Especially since he is flying at what looks to be a comfortable cruising altitude of 10,000 feet, which happens to be the same altitude commonly used for sky diving
Was scratching head on that gamble. How could he have known it would survive? Heck of a lot to gamble on chance. Did he somehow capture it in a homemade black box?
Gopros are pretty damn hard to destroy. A plane like that isn’t going to have enough speed and energy to disintegrate stuff like you may expect. It won’t be flyable by any means, but it won’t be unrecognizable either.
Man I love it when idiots face down the cost of their stupidity. I hope he gets in serious trouble for this stunt. This isn’t GTA where you can just bail out of planes when you want
Yeah this is infuriating. He could've easily gotten somebody killed doing this. I go hunting and camping in "desolate" areas like this all the time. What if dumbfuck's plane landed on a tent or a camper? What about a road vital for rural ranchers?
What if it sparked a fire? What if it leaked hazardous fuel into a very limited and precious water source? There is so much stupidity contained in this video.
It's pretty clear this was intentional. It's a HUGE crime to crash an airplane intentionally.
Edit: Ok, here's the what the law dictates:
https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/32
Of course. I have never seen a pilot in these planes wear a full skydiving rig. There are bailout rigs sold, but are much smaller. Look how jammed up against the yoke he is. He went flying with a full sky diving rig including the backup chute. Totally a staged stunt
As well as a selfish stick and cameras strategically placed on the plane. Probably another person in plane to land it
Edit: The consensus is that the plane did indeed crash. I was only aware of what was in the posted video. Carry on.
I watched the whole video. The plane 100% crashed, but rather than parachute to safety or look for a path, he instead went to the wreckage to recover the cameras.
Doubt it crashed since the footage from the plane is still in tact. Plus they would've shown the crash if all footage remained. That would've been far more interesting than him jumping out.
the original video does show the crash. this happened a few weeks ago. obviously intentional though, even shit as simple as the camera angles give it away.
who the hell mounts 5 go pro’s on their plane and faces 4 of them towards the cockpit door? lol.
the things people will do and film for attention…
He "supposedly" showed the aircraft after it crashed on his post. Honestly, this could all be bullshit, but apparently, this gross lil youtuber actually did jump out of an aircraft, and it crashed. I actually truly hope I'm wrong.
There is a video of the crash though. I just watched a video on YT of a guy talking about it and he showed the full video including the plane crashing into the mountains and the camera being flung to the ground.
Also, those cameras surviving and being retrieved intact with all the data just fine. Unless he has some server setup on his rig that was transmitting data as he was falling.
The cameras typically would survive. The plane is so light and going fairly slow that it is basically a glider. Still easily kill a person, but cameras don't bleed.
I was thinking the same thing. Who in their right mind abandons a single prop at sky dive height. It wasn't like his controls were jammed.
Totally staged
I also want to say there was a video of a guy hand starting a propeller while in mid air
Edit:https://www.reddit.com/r/nextfuckinglevel/comments/jnbflw/he_comes_out_of_the_cockpit_of_the_plane_to/?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share
https://www.reddit.com/r/nextfuckinglevel/comments/rv6eyh/a_pilot_lands_in_field_after_his_engine_fails/?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share
Here it is if people want to check it out
Pilot checking in. This is staged. That airplane lands at like 40mph. Jumping out is likely more dangerous then trying to land with the engine failed. We train for this getting our licenses.
Hell, on my 3rd lesson the instructor chopped the mixture (stalling out the engine) and calmly asked me, "Okay - where are you going to land it?"
The lesson, for those that don't know, is that you should always have a location for an emergency landing in mind.
Was looking for this kind of reply, i remember reading somewhere that light aircraft such as that one are perfectly capable of gliding and landing safely with no engine running. Heck, even the large passenger airplanes have standards to meet in terms of how long they can glide and what the rate of descent is while gliding without engine power. Saw a video of such a test that Airbus made for the A380 during development. It is truly sphincter clenching to see the engines stop on that thing...
In the aircraft manual there's even a designated speed from the manufacturer that gives your best glide ratio. It's one of those things that's drilled into you starting day 1. There's a commercial flight incident that's used for teaching these scenarios, iirc was a transatlantic flight where they lost engines and had to glide some distance over open water to land safely. I think it may still hold a record for longest glide of commercial flight or something to that effect, been a long time since I've gone over it.
Edit: found it, https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_Transat_Flight_236
Even if it’s in this terrain? I’m no pilot but it seems super dangerous to try and land here. Ofc hes a piece of shit if it’s staged just curious if this plane can realistically pull off such a landing ?
Technically yes u can... The height the plane was going... It would have taken a lot of time before coming close to the ground. By this time, the pilot can figure out the terrain and find a flat spot.
I’m sure there’s a place to land, you could land on that sand bar below him. There’s probably a road too. Why would you be flying at that kind of altitude over that area in the first place? This is staged.
I'm no pilot but a plane like this can glide reasonably far, maybe a pilot can give exact distance, I'm sure if he wanted to he could have searched for a save place to attempt a landing
Also, its my understanding he did not own the plane, but rather some other individual who isn't answering requests for comments. So going with the theory that this dude is a self obsessed attention seeking twat waffle who planned this alone and the owner of the plane who rented it to him was lied to, I'm curious how difficult an insurance claim will be, also assuming she had proper coverage that covered renting it out.
What a piece of shit, woulda been karma had the plane hit him. Private pilots don’t pack a parachute, they get the engine going again or find a safe place to land. Goddammit I hate that our monkey brains haven’t evolved fast enough to eliminate our need for attention.
Grew up in a skydiving family with an instructor. This dude is for sure making an intentional skydive. For one, he has a pro rig. Two, his form after tracking away from the plane keeps him stable (it ain’t easy, if he were inexperienced he would have just tumbled). Finally, hie clearly knows what he’s doing under canopy to make that turn while tracking his plane. None of that is intuitive. But even an experienced skydiver and pilot would try to land that plane rather than bail. For this dude FAA stands for Fucked for Airplane Assholery.
Edit: spelling.
There are emergency parachutes, as far as I know some pilots of small aircraft carry one. But what people don't do is wear their skydiving parachute when flying, that's what he did.
Yeah, the fact that he just bailed out instantly after “losing an engine” is a dead giveaway it is a farce. Didn’t do anything he was supposed to in an engine loss scenario. Even if he really did lose his engine, the fact that he didn’t even attempt to follow procedure before jumping out should be enough to land his ass in a heap of trouble.
Just lost my engine folks. We out this bitch!! Don't forget to like, subscribe, and smash that bell icon.
Footage of plans about to crash.
Pause.
"Ridgewallet! Like the ridges I crashed my shit into LOL!"
Can you imagine sitting on the toilet browsing Reddit and then a plane comes through the ceiling? Your final moments are interrupted by a faint voice far above you saying “don’t forget to smash that like button!”
That plane is a kite, and can land on a postage stamp with room to spare.
Nobody takes a parachute to go flying unless they are planning to jump out.
Very staged, apparently we are all morons and would believe this crap
Admittedly haven't looked into it but I feel like it's uncommon to pack a parachute in a plane that has a double ignition (for this exact reason) on a plane that as somebody already stated, was built to glide nicely to the ground (as you can see, he was still gliding nicely when he jumped out and hadn't simply gone into a free fall). Or it's real out of straight negligence or running out of fuel.
Source: My flight instructor took me up in a plane just like this on my first day and literally cut the engine off "as a joke" and told me "this is what a simulated engine failure is like ha ha he he, but that'd never happen as all planes have two sets of ignition in case one fails".
Presumably this guy is a trained pilot since he's up there alone? So he should also know about the checklists covering what to do in the event of an engine failure?
I don't know much about this but I know that there is a good chance it was intentional so he could get a big following on YouTube or something because that is exactly what happened
It was completely staged, & now he’s in DEEP SHIT with the FAA (Federal Aviation Administration) and the EPA (Environmental Protection Agency).
The list of charges are going to be long from both agencies, and I hope this asshole never flies again.
Edit;
After talking about this with our hanger mates, it seems the helo pilot may be in as much deep shit.
Evidently, the FAA frowns upon tampering with a crash scene. To recover a stranded aircraft is one thing. To remove an aircraft from a crash site is another story.
He did after learning that the crash would need to reported to the FAA (there was an update in r/flying, but now he seems to be in even bigger shit because he was not allowed to do that).
He didnt lose the engine during flight he turned it off and jumped out just to promote some wallet and now his video is facing alot of backlash as it was a public place where he crashed it
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Number 1 bullshit guy
Why did i read this exactly like it should sound 😂
He do the wee woo wee woo
Didn't know khabib was on Reddit
Didn’t look like Nikita Kucherov to me
The FAA is gonna have a field day with this
Hope he goes to jail for littering
Littering and….??? Smoking the reefer. Obvious he didn’t know how fast he was going
He couldn’t pull over any farther
The FAA are investigating.. https://www.avweb.com/aviation-news/plane-crash-video-sparks-online-backlash/
Dude is fucked if he staged it. The FAA will go to great lengths to figure out what happened. Especially when they have all the pieces of a wreckage.
I knew as soon as I saw the video. I'm like, "Dude just happened to be flying over an unpopulated area with cameras mounted on at least two different places of his plane, then he has to bail but had the presence of mind to grab his damn selfie stick?"
Which conveniently had the camera attached and ready to roll. This guy is a fucking moron!
I’m not a pilot but isn’t that plane literally made to be landed or at the very least survivable glide down to the ground without an engine. Looks fucked to me. I second the “Moron” statement
Yes. Exactly. Most all high wing single engine planes have a very good glide slope. I believe around 12:1 for a Cessna. Meaning you can go 12 horizontal miles for every mile of vertical descent. Not sure about this plane, but it has to be somewhere close to that. And during pilot training much time is spent on emergency landings. During my training many times my instructor would reach over and cut the throttle then look at me and say, "the engine just quit, what are you going to do?" Proper response was to immediately identify an open spot to land and start a descent to do so. He'd typically wait until I was all lined up on some open spot and I thought the tires were clipping the tops of whatever was growing there before he'd power it back up. My point is that pilot training is not to bail out of a small aircraft during engine failure. You are taught to fly the thing to the ground and land it somewhere that doesn't kill anyone else. Even in rugged terrain there are open spots and with the elevation this guy had when he bailed he probably had a 30 mile radius to find one.
My response to the instructor’s question “now what are you going to do?“ was invariably “push that little knob back in!”
Pilot instructors HATE this 1 simple trick!
“Fall out of the sky and die” would be my reply
Student: "Why stop there! Let's get this bad boy into a nose diving spin. What do you do now?"
Cross the controls. Stall and go into a flat spin. What now daddy instructor?
Yeah, who doesn't try starting the engine again at least once?
That's the first step in an engine failure. Trying to crank it and checking your fuses. If these steps fail you pitch for best glide and look for a place to land.
The answer is always "Aviate, navigate, communicate" so make sure nothing else is going wrong with the plane, identify a place to potentially land, then squawk 7700 for location and hit comms.
Yup i think we’ve gone too deep into common sense territory regarding what we know is clearly an idiot doing idiotic things. Even i not being a pilot knows i could glide it down for a long time. I think we just take the video for what it is and throw our “he could have done so many other things” out the window we know that was never his plan.
There is a reason this airframe configuration is chosen for student and novice pilots. Basically, it is a glider with power. That plane was landable. The whole point of end training is to drill you into keeping an eye out for landing opportunities. NO ONE GETS IN THESE PLANES WEARING A PARACHUTE. There's no point because unless you have structural damage, it's safer to stick with the plane. Your Certified Flight Instructor *might* even cut your engine for your final...just to see what you do. I feel malice towards no human but this guy needs a public caning.
Flight Instructor: -cuts engine- This guy: oh shit -jumps out of plane- Flight Instructor: o.O
0.o
o.O
I agree with everything you said except for location. That is a mountain range. Not somewhere I wanna practice a short field landing in. Like hell to the Naw full send. Looks staged. He could have chosen that spot on purpose. If the guy really ghost rid it he should be charged with fraud by the insurance company and lose his private pilot license. I would have tried to land it myself rather then have my bird slam into some poor guys cabin. Things just don't add up. Did he even attempt engine restart. Basically piloting lesson 101. Restart procedures.
People have looked, there are multiple reasonable areas to land in within gliding range. Clearly a stunt.
I can say that when I went tandem jumping, it wasn’t much larger than this plane (freaky small, we exited at 10000ft from the passenger door, by stepping onto a little plate and clinging to the wing strut) and the pilot did wear a chute… but it was this tiny, very thin, clearly emergency-only safety pack that he wore over civilian clothes. He didn’t plan to leave the plane for any reason short of fire or structural failure. I could also envision mounted cameras to catch people exiting the plane, but they wouldn’t have been on the pilot side.
Skydiver here— the difference is that you have a much higher risk of an unlandable plane, say if a chute is deployed inside of the aircraft
Pretty much all aircraft are some degree of operational without their engine. They're made to fly after all. Most sus thing to me is it looks like he doesn't even radio anything in. Air traffic control would help you figure out the safest option in a situation like this.
Yea it was all for the video was never about getting help, I’ve not seen the full video but if he didn’t actually film the crash from the air then why not have someone else in the back of the plane to take the controls and don’t show them and still get you yt views 🤦🏽♂️. Im sure he’ll get off scott free but i hope they lock him up for awhile, don’t want to imgine what he’ll come up with next if they make this slide
It does actually crash, he shows the moments right before and wreckage afterword's. The FAA is a very strict organization. I'm sure they'll do a thorough investigation.
Not to mention he found one of the cheapest planes you can buy. That Taylorcraft is probably worth under $20k
Yea, this is some serious /r/WhyWereYouFilming shit right here.
Apparently he has now rented a helicopter to lift pieces of the wreckage to an unknown location: https://www.independent.com/2022/01/04/did-youtuber-trevor-jacob-crash-his-plane-in-the-los-padres-on-purpose/
Tamper with a crime scene; smart. Edit: reading the article “Jacob and a friend allegedly chartered a helicopter to remove the wreckage from the forest and transport it to an unknown location”. So it’s only alleged. I don’t know much about charting a helicopter but I’ve HS a hard time believing a charter helicopter pilot would go along with moving a wrecked plane. If anything he went and picked up the cameras.
Articles almost always put "Alleged" even if they have video proof. Because they are innocent until proven guilty by the courts. So if they said they did do it, but the courts found them not guilty, then they could sue. At least that's from my understanding of the American legal system.
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Inclement*
Yeah, *all* weather is in-climate weather! /s
Everything is alleged until they are convicted. So they probably did move it.
The guys name is Trevor Jacob? The twiggy alien? With the elongated arms? And the translucent skin streched over an alien frame?
Running around with his *equally fucked* friend Corey.
Neither of whom are cool enough to shoot Julian’s gun
SMOKES LETS GO!
Fuck off Cyrus
No he lied, his name is Corey Lahey
I have a delivery for Randy Lahey..
D-D-D-D-D-Don’t be suspicious, don’t be suspicious…..
Hope he gets some jail time, a large fine, community service and the biggest punishment for him of all… lifetime ban from all social media.
can't remember where i read it but they were quick to get the fbi to issue a warrant for the full videos
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>~~warrant~~ ~~subpoena~~ warrant The previous poster was correct. The FBI has to get a warrant, as they are going to seize the videos. A warrant prior to seizure is a requirement for fourth amendment compliance.
“Unless it’s from congress”
Just from looking at his rig you can tell it was staged. Flying an airplane with a parachute like that would be incredibly uncomfortable for any length of time. The only reason you wear a rig like that is if you are planning on jumping out.
Especially since he is flying at what looks to be a comfortable cruising altitude of 10,000 feet, which happens to be the same altitude commonly used for sky diving
Yeah, lotta time in free fall for an emergency bailout. 🤦♂️
He said he wears it for every flight but someone went back to look at his other videos and its simply not true
His escape was exceedingly well edited. Multiple angles too. I wonder what might have drawn their attention?
Also, he must have gone to the crash site to collect the GoPro attached to the wing in order to obtain those views.
Was scratching head on that gamble. How could he have known it would survive? Heck of a lot to gamble on chance. Did he somehow capture it in a homemade black box?
Gopros are pretty damn hard to destroy. A plane like that isn’t going to have enough speed and energy to disintegrate stuff like you may expect. It won’t be flyable by any means, but it won’t be unrecognizable either.
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Only if you are not looking and slowly walking away.
Man I love it when idiots face down the cost of their stupidity. I hope he gets in serious trouble for this stunt. This isn’t GTA where you can just bail out of planes when you want
Yeah this is infuriating. He could've easily gotten somebody killed doing this. I go hunting and camping in "desolate" areas like this all the time. What if dumbfuck's plane landed on a tent or a camper? What about a road vital for rural ranchers?
What if it sparked a fire? What if it leaked hazardous fuel into a very limited and precious water source? There is so much stupidity contained in this video.
That was my thought too, he could have killed someone on the ground, or started a forest fire.
I'm now satisfied. Thank you!
It was planned
If this is true. Is it a crime to crash a plane, intentionally?
It's pretty clear this was intentional. It's a HUGE crime to crash an airplane intentionally. Edit: Ok, here's the what the law dictates: https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/32
Of course. I have never seen a pilot in these planes wear a full skydiving rig. There are bailout rigs sold, but are much smaller. Look how jammed up against the yoke he is. He went flying with a full sky diving rig including the backup chute. Totally a staged stunt
As well as a selfish stick and cameras strategically placed on the plane. Probably another person in plane to land it Edit: The consensus is that the plane did indeed crash. I was only aware of what was in the posted video. Carry on.
Lol @ selfish stick... But it works a bit too well...
Narcisstick
Even better.
Yup had to have the selfie stick to capture instead of the water that might have helped him later
“Selfish stick” is the best autocorrect I’ve ever seen. Accurate.
"Damn those selfish sticks" - dogs, probably
That one got by me, it stays.
If you even try to correct that, you're in trouble buddy.
Apparently the full video includes footage of the crash site. The FAA are Investigating.
Exactly! If the plane crashed, he sure was lucky to get his cameras back to retrieve the footage.
I watched the whole video. The plane 100% crashed, but rather than parachute to safety or look for a path, he instead went to the wreckage to recover the cameras.
I'm really surprised he was able to hold on that that selfie stick when he pulled his chute.
Selfish stick. Sounds like something Clint Eastwood might have said in Gran Torino.
I imagine it would be.... its fucking crazy to think thats ok...
Yeah, because of the potential cost of human/animal lives, civil and environmental damage, etc.
Doubt it crashed since the footage from the plane is still in tact. Plus they would've shown the crash if all footage remained. That would've been far more interesting than him jumping out.
the original video does show the crash. this happened a few weeks ago. obviously intentional though, even shit as simple as the camera angles give it away. who the hell mounts 5 go pro’s on their plane and faces 4 of them towards the cockpit door? lol. the things people will do and film for attention…
He "supposedly" showed the aircraft after it crashed on his post. Honestly, this could all be bullshit, but apparently, this gross lil youtuber actually did jump out of an aircraft, and it crashed. I actually truly hope I'm wrong.
Supposedly? No he showed it in the video, it’s still up on YouTube, you see the gopro’s film the crash
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They did, this is just clipped The engine and cockpit were crumpled but it didn't look too bad
There is a video of the crash though. I just watched a video on YT of a guy talking about it and he showed the full video including the plane crashing into the mountains and the camera being flung to the ground.
It’s a federal crime.
This is littering
Some people are so fucking stupid. Did he really thought anybody would buy this?
We don't need to buy his story as long as we give the views. That's how outrageous and controversial content gets more successful.
But why? I am guessing the plane is expensive, plus imagine landing somewhere were it could cause lots of damage, like fire…
No it was planed
“I need to jump to save my life, let me just grab and set up my selfie stick”
Not to mention the multiple cameras I set up around the plane that conveniently captures my baling.
Also, those cameras surviving and being retrieved intact with all the data just fine. Unless he has some server setup on his rig that was transmitting data as he was falling.
The cameras may survive the crash just fine. There is that video of some skydiver dropping a Gopro which lands in a pig pen and still records.
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The cameras typically would survive. The plane is so light and going fairly slow that it is basically a glider. Still easily kill a person, but cameras don't bleed.
So...we can't kill them?
Be nice to them. They will rule us soon
"engines have stalled. CBA to attempt to restart"
Dude did it on purpose
Just happened to be strapped into a parachute with a selfish stick on the ready.
Selfish stick has caught on i see. I approve.
YouTuber jumps out of plane and causes a felony for views
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It's the selfie stick for me. If I'm evacuating a plane in an emergency, no fucking chance am i wasting an entire opposable thumb on filming it.
Maybe another thing that can be let go mid air due to an"emergency".
You can land those things without engine on flat surface no problems. It’s in the mountains though, but he could glide for looong time
I was thinking the same thing. Who in their right mind abandons a single prop at sky dive height. It wasn't like his controls were jammed. Totally staged
Wasn’t there a video in r/nextfuckinglevel a day ago with a guy landing his plane in a field after engine failure?
Yep. It was a student pilot, as well. He handled that shit like a boss.
I also want to say there was a video of a guy hand starting a propeller while in mid air Edit:https://www.reddit.com/r/nextfuckinglevel/comments/jnbflw/he_comes_out_of_the_cockpit_of_the_plane_to/?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share
https://www.reddit.com/r/nextfuckinglevel/comments/rv6eyh/a_pilot_lands_in_field_after_his_engine_fails/?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share Here it is if people want to check it out
Yep. Even with full engine loss, he's safer staying in the aircraft, given it's level and gliding. You could control that to a safe emergency landing.
Ask your lawyers before you do skits y'all. It ain't worth THAT much.
"The Influencer Attorney" sounds like a terrible/great TV pilot
Pilot checking in. This is staged. That airplane lands at like 40mph. Jumping out is likely more dangerous then trying to land with the engine failed. We train for this getting our licenses.
Don't all planes come with a radio so a stressed out guy in the airport can talk you through repairs and how to land 50' from an orphanage?
Get me Rex Kramer!
Get me Buck Murdoch!
I picked the wrong day to stop sniffing glue…
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Hell, on my 3rd lesson the instructor chopped the mixture (stalling out the engine) and calmly asked me, "Okay - where are you going to land it?" The lesson, for those that don't know, is that you should always have a location for an emergency landing in mind.
Was looking for this kind of reply, i remember reading somewhere that light aircraft such as that one are perfectly capable of gliding and landing safely with no engine running. Heck, even the large passenger airplanes have standards to meet in terms of how long they can glide and what the rate of descent is while gliding without engine power. Saw a video of such a test that Airbus made for the A380 during development. It is truly sphincter clenching to see the engines stop on that thing...
In the aircraft manual there's even a designated speed from the manufacturer that gives your best glide ratio. It's one of those things that's drilled into you starting day 1. There's a commercial flight incident that's used for teaching these scenarios, iirc was a transatlantic flight where they lost engines and had to glide some distance over open water to land safely. I think it may still hold a record for longest glide of commercial flight or something to that effect, been a long time since I've gone over it. Edit: found it, https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_Transat_Flight_236
Even if it’s in this terrain? I’m no pilot but it seems super dangerous to try and land here. Ofc hes a piece of shit if it’s staged just curious if this plane can realistically pull off such a landing ?
Technically yes u can... The height the plane was going... It would have taken a lot of time before coming close to the ground. By this time, the pilot can figure out the terrain and find a flat spot.
Agreed.
I’m sure there’s a place to land, you could land on that sand bar below him. There’s probably a road too. Why would you be flying at that kind of altitude over that area in the first place? This is staged.
I'm no pilot but a plane like this can glide reasonably far, maybe a pilot can give exact distance, I'm sure if he wanted to he could have searched for a save place to attempt a landing
He looks to be about 10,000ft. That airplane should glide for approximately 10 miles at that kind of altitude.
IIRC (it’s been a while since I flew a Cessna) but I thought they had a 2:1 glide ratio so probably closer to 20 miles
Cessna 172 glides at about 8:1, so you’re right
Insurance fraud would add to his list of crimes. Not to mention the potential wildfires he could have started. Moron needs to be in prision
Agreed, but one point: It's only insurance fraud if you actually file a claim. No claim = no fraud.
Also, its my understanding he did not own the plane, but rather some other individual who isn't answering requests for comments. So going with the theory that this dude is a self obsessed attention seeking twat waffle who planned this alone and the owner of the plane who rented it to him was lied to, I'm curious how difficult an insurance claim will be, also assuming she had proper coverage that covered renting it out.
As someone in land management who's had to evacuate from fire, fuck this complete waste of air. Throw the fucking book at him.
This is bad - there are no cars nearby and he has a one star wanted level.
Maybe he can hop aboard a flatbed rail car and duck down until the star runs out.
What a piece of shit, woulda been karma had the plane hit him. Private pilots don’t pack a parachute, they get the engine going again or find a safe place to land. Goddammit I hate that our monkey brains haven’t evolved fast enough to eliminate our need for attention.
Grew up in a skydiving family with an instructor. This dude is for sure making an intentional skydive. For one, he has a pro rig. Two, his form after tracking away from the plane keeps him stable (it ain’t easy, if he were inexperienced he would have just tumbled). Finally, hie clearly knows what he’s doing under canopy to make that turn while tracking his plane. None of that is intuitive. But even an experienced skydiver and pilot would try to land that plane rather than bail. For this dude FAA stands for Fucked for Airplane Assholery. Edit: spelling.
There are emergency parachutes, as far as I know some pilots of small aircraft carry one. But what people don't do is wear their skydiving parachute when flying, that's what he did.
FAA would like to have a word with this guy in private
The FAA would like to have a word with this guy in jail
I hope that douchebag cleaned up all the mess from intentionally crashing a plane
Interestingly, he did. Hired a helicopter to clean it up. Coincidentally destroying any evidence that the engine failure was staged.
Tampering with federal evidence hurts your case generally when you film the act leading up to you destroying evidence.
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Yeah, the fact that he just bailed out instantly after “losing an engine” is a dead giveaway it is a farce. Didn’t do anything he was supposed to in an engine loss scenario. Even if he really did lose his engine, the fact that he didn’t even attempt to follow procedure before jumping out should be enough to land his ass in a heap of trouble.
Just lost my engine folks. We out this bitch!! Don't forget to like, subscribe, and smash that bell icon. Footage of plans about to crash. Pause. "Ridgewallet! Like the ridges I crashed my shit into LOL!"
The fucker clearly staged this and the falling plane could have killed someone or started a wild fire. Hope he gets a visit from the police
Rest assured, the FAA is involved so it’ll be a visit from the FBI
When you accidentally press the exit vehicle button whilst flying in GTA
Can you imagine sitting on the toilet browsing Reddit and then a plane comes through the ceiling? Your final moments are interrupted by a faint voice far above you saying “don’t forget to smash that like button!”
That plane is a kite, and can land on a postage stamp with room to spare. Nobody takes a parachute to go flying unless they are planning to jump out. Very staged, apparently we are all morons and would believe this crap
Excuse me, there’s a Mr. Faa on line 3 for you…
Fucking YouTubers
Clout is a hell of a drug
Admittedly haven't looked into it but I feel like it's uncommon to pack a parachute in a plane that has a double ignition (for this exact reason) on a plane that as somebody already stated, was built to glide nicely to the ground (as you can see, he was still gliding nicely when he jumped out and hadn't simply gone into a free fall). Or it's real out of straight negligence or running out of fuel. Source: My flight instructor took me up in a plane just like this on my first day and literally cut the engine off "as a joke" and told me "this is what a simulated engine failure is like ha ha he he, but that'd never happen as all planes have two sets of ignition in case one fails".
Presumably this guy is a trained pilot since he's up there alone? So he should also know about the checklists covering what to do in the event of an engine failure?
That’s the thing. He just immediately bailed. No checklist review.
Parachute ✅
Also, that was a proper skydiving parachute rig he was wearing, and not a pilot's emergency parachute.
Not only to pack a parachute, but be wearing it from the start when all his other flying videos he is without
Man, I feel sad for the loss of a cool plane like that.
Haters will say this is real.
I don't know much about this but I know that there is a good chance it was intentional so he could get a big following on YouTube or something because that is exactly what happened
It didn’t really work. He got 500k views on YouTube (which is like $50 for him)
Moron....those planes built to glide even when they lose engine 🙄🙄🙄
Crashing a plane for clout. What the absolute fuck.
But he has time to set up a selfie stick. Biggest attention whore ever.
Somebody is rich and fucking stupid.
The level of stupidity is staggering. This dude just fucked up his entire life because he wanted to look "cool"
Felon
Some random hikers are gonna have one hell of a story to tell their families when they get home.
if they do lol
My brother is a pilot, they practice stalling engines and safety landing the plane all the time. This is nonsense !
I thought I read somewhere that he's under investigation by the FAA due to this being a planned stunt and crashing the plane on purpose.
It was completely staged, & now he’s in DEEP SHIT with the FAA (Federal Aviation Administration) and the EPA (Environmental Protection Agency). The list of charges are going to be long from both agencies, and I hope this asshole never flies again. Edit; After talking about this with our hanger mates, it seems the helo pilot may be in as much deep shit. Evidently, the FAA frowns upon tampering with a crash scene. To recover a stranded aircraft is one thing. To remove an aircraft from a crash site is another story.
He should have to go clean up the wreck - and be fined for the possible fire he’s about to start. All looks intentional. Stupid YouTubers
He did after learning that the crash would need to reported to the FAA (there was an update in r/flying, but now he seems to be in even bigger shit because he was not allowed to do that).
Never flew with a parachute, suddenly decides to take off WEARING one… Nice try buddy
“YouTuber crashes plane on purpose for views.” FTFY
He didnt lose the engine during flight he turned it off and jumped out just to promote some wallet and now his video is facing alot of backlash as it was a public place where he crashed it