{"id":13646,"date":"2023-05-12T21:09:58","date_gmt":"2023-05-12T21:09:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/socialpanic.org\/?p=13646"},"modified":"2023-05-12T21:12:23","modified_gmt":"2023-05-12T21:12:23","slug":"follow-up-trevor-jacob-and-his-faked-for-social-media-plane-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/2023\/05\/12\/follow-up-trevor-jacob-and-his-faked-for-social-media-plane-crash\/","title":{"rendered":"Follow up: Trevor Jacob and his faked for social media plane crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The original stunt: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/2022\/01\/22\/trevor-jacob-and-his-plane-crash\/\">Trevor Jacob and his plane crash \u2013 Coldstreams Skeptic<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>As of May 2023, Trevor Jacob admits it was a faked stunt for a promotional opportunity. <a href=\"https:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/youtuber-crashed-plane-california-mountains-024652834.html\">He also admits to having lied about most aspects of the crash, having hauled away the wreckage, contrary to regulations<\/a>. Almost every aspect of his stunt was figured out within 1-2 weeks by many members of the aviation community on Youtube.<\/p>\n<p>He may end up sentenced to prison and a comment to the news story claims he is still facing &#8220;charges of insurance fraud&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>I doubt the FAA will allow him to pilot an aircraft again.<\/p>\n<p>Sadly, social media brings out the nation of idiots: Remember this stunt? <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2017\/06\/29\/us\/fatal-youtube-stunt\/index.html\">Woman fatally shoots boyfriend in YouTube stunt | CNN<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The dumb idea came from the boyfriend who apparently insisted she fire the gun. She ended up convicted of second-degree manslaughter and a half year in jail, and 10 years probation. After release from prison, she started a new Youtube channel &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trevor Jacob pretended to have an engine out failure in his light plane, jumping out by parachute as his plane gradually circled to impact into a hillside in a remote area. He then filmed his &#8220;harrowing&#8221; escape and hike out. He now admits the entire stunt was done for social media views and a promotional fee, and has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dictionary.com\/browse\/plead\">pled<\/a> guilty to charges. He may be sentenced to prison.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,42,46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crime","category-social-media","category-stupidity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13646","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13646"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13646\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}