If anyone ever keeps my ashes in a plastic bag, I hope their engine quits enroute :) Go ahead and just put my ashes in the wallet. Also, I may be wrong but best I can tell Johnny Strange died in 2015
I'm pinning this comment to prove that "Just Plane Silly" watched it. (That's a pretty big deal). If 310 pilot comments, the pin will be removed and replaced! :)
"If anyone ever keeps my ashes in a plastic bag, I hope their engine quits enroute :) Go ahead and just put my ashes in the wallet." - This comment was brought to you by Ridge Wallet! (I kid, I kid!)
Strange did die in 2015. Why Jacob waited until now to spread his friend’s ashes (if that’s what they actually were) is just one more weird-ass thing about that video.
Hey. Great video, I love your respectful but factual approach. I’m still mulling over if I should do something on this or not myself but I’m a bit afraid I’ll just give him more views. Keep up the great work!
@@quinnjim Thank you! No, in this case I could do an exception given the clear lessons that can be taught even from the small bits we can see. Since no one was hurt, I don’t see any harm here.
@@MentourPilot except for the little fuel he had on board could have exacerbated an already high risk of wildfire in the mountains for no reason other than clicks on a youtube channel.
I am an emergency responder, I know what someone who is panicked sounds and looks like, that guy was not significantly stressed at all. Just an actor, and not a particularly good one at that.
Same for me. Btw could you talk a little bit about skydiving operations? How do they differ from regular flying in terms of piloting, procedures, etc? Thank you.
Of all the communities in which he could have chosen to pull this stunt, he chose the aviation community. One filled with tons of knowledge, analytics, oversight and, generally speaking, one of the most safety-conscientious communities out there. In short, he picked the absolutely wrong venue to try his stupid prank with. Good luck to him, I see some federal charges pending.
Let's hope so. This stupid kind of stunt leaves a tarnish and will be motivation for other dumbf*cks to do equally stupid shit. Ridgewallet should be ashamed that they paid for this felony.
Although smaller the sky dive community is not gonna like this. The sport already has enough bad reputation. Every skydive is practically landing in nothing more than a glide. And apparently he couldn’t do the exact same with a plane that is obviously capable. I have a feeling he won’t be jumping after this.
This guy is the Jussie Smollett of the aviation community. He gives all of us a black eye. IMHO. Mad respect for your take on this guy. Thanks for sharing. Cheers from Louisiana.
Had to laugh about it, however Jussie had a lot of people backing him up. I hardly think anyone is going to back this guy up. He's got hold of all the evidence, the FAA is probably going to request the uncut video. If it was really was what happened then he should post his evidence, but the lack of any response is just incriminating in itself. Even if I were a serious pilot that happened to have 60 go pro's mounted on his plane, I would post every single angle. Why? Well first of all it's 60 times ad revenue and second my plane just crashed, at least make some money back that way. But I guess his ridge wallet deal probably recouped his plane 5 times over.
*No worries!* The only thing I know about aviation is where to purchase a ticket and how to buckle up. NOT even I bought his "misadventure". I mean the guy has "near death" experiences as often as I renew my car's insurance...
@@rockcrawler3119 Wait am I stupid or how do they repair a fucking fighter jet from slamming like a pancake into the ground? That can’t be what you meant right lol
@@heatherlynsey3092 I can't recall the plane model, but from memory it was in a flat spin when the pilot ejected. After ejecting, the plane re-established level flight and idled along for a good long while. Effective did a wheels up landing in a field, with remarkably little damage. Repaired and flew again!
He also had the door open before "losing power", as well as having flown over farmland not 5 minutes before. There's another video breakdown on YT that shows the area, and there was enough flat farm fields to put a jumbo down. This guy did this intentionally, and I hope that he is found criminally negligent besides losing his license. Destroying that 80 year old aircraft was not only criminal but a sin. All for views. Ridiculous.
Maybe I'm wrong but it looked like it was sorta flat near the crash site if you look at some of the background at the crash site. He coulda stuffed it there, no doubt it woulda hurt and been a little ugly though.
@@Ayeshteni Even without fuel, there’s a chance that the impact could start a fire in that brush. California is in a multi-year drought, and sparks from the engine hitting or dragging across stone could ignite the brush. Thank god it didn’t. The place he crashed, Los Padres National Forest, is federal land as the name implies. So the FAA can suspend or revoke his pilot license, but he could be facing federal, state, or county criminal investigations. I hope he makes a video, “I’m prosecuted for reckless endangerment”.
Yeah, you can tell when someone is spoiled. He turned his whole house into a skatepark and does all kinds of stunts. Nothing wrong with that but it throws up Red flags in this case because it would be something he and his crew would do on his channel.
He did absolutely everything wrong here. From an aviation standpoint - wrong From a parachuting standpoint - wrong From a survival standpoint - wrong From a video editing standpoint - wrong The title of his video should have been, “How to Get Caught Purposely Crashing an Airplane.”
I've been a flight instructor for 37 years and I owned a 1940 Taylorcraft BC-65, the same model as this except with a Continental 65 instead of the Lycoming. It looks extremely staged to me. During engine failure drill I always teach aviate..get to the best glide, navigate..find someplace to land, communicate..declare a mayday (although he may not have any more than a hand held radio since he probably doesn't have an electrical system) then try for a restart. Not a lot to do on the Taylorcraft other than make sure the fuel is on, carb heat is on and the mags are hot. The only time I've ever worn a chute is when teaching aerobatics or soaring and they are very uncomfortable in my opinion and it looks like he just barely fit in the plane while wearing a skydiving rig. Also, it looks like the top of the mountain to the left of the plane just before it crashes would be very landable. The whole scenario just looks fake to me.
Funny that you mention it but... turns out this plane also had a Continental 65 fitted on the day it crashed, despite being registered with a Lycoming. 🤔
It's not just one thing though. When you look at the totality of the incident and add up all the coincidences and errors, you can only come to one conclusion. 1. He buys a really cheap plane and tells the seller "I am going to do something special with this". 2. He has or has previously owned a bush plane, but ignored the numerous landing options open to an experienced bush plane pilot. 3. He has a go pro with a good view of the controls and panel but does not show any footage. 4. At the moment the engine quits, his first priority is to grab a selfie stick and camera and start recording. 5. Manages to video everything quite clearly but has no video of the car or people that rescue him. 6. Why is his door open BEFORE the engine quits. 7. Constantly mentions "I always wear a parachute, I always wear a parachute", it seems to be an alibi as to why he happened to have one on despite previous videos showing he doesn't usually wear them. 8. He seemed to be in an awful hurry to open the silk, despite having the altitude to try a mayday call on his cell? at the same time attempting an airstart. .Occams razor, or in simple terms, If quacks like a duck, walks like a duck and looks like a duck......it's probably a duck.
I am reminded of a friend of mine talking about his flying lessons. he and his instructor took off, circled up to a couple thousand feet, and then the instructor said, "okay, pop quiz: your engine just died. where do you land?" my friend checked his options, and decided a wheat field looked like his best bet. the instructor asked, "what's wrong with the airport directly below us?"
The ashes in a plastic bag followed by shameless marketing definitely got a reaction from me. And just the way he handled the bag... like, I lost a friend two years ago, and handling his ashes in such a nonchalant way is just absolutely unthinkable to me. I have no idea who this guy is prior to this and will refrain from making judgment, but man, that was a serious red flag for me about the nature of his character.
Well said my new RUclips friend. I am 30 hours into getting my PPL and my CFI is always drilling the mantra into my head. Aviate, navigate and then communicate. While flying he will all the sudden say “okay, the engine just blew up and the prop has stopped. What are you going to do?” And he’s listening for “…I feather the prop, establish my best glide, find a place I can land, head for it, then call in a mayday…” He’s always ambushing me like that. But he has me thinking of that stuff as I am flying. I found myself flying straight over a highway and was thinking if I had to there’s the perfect runway. Watch out for those power lines and the upcoming bridge… my CFI had a meltdown when we watched the Trevor video. Like you he called out all the red flags. And he used it as a training tool for me! Surprised he didn’t bill me. He kept pausing it and asking what I would have done each step. Anyways, loved your take on this and liked and subbed
It sounds like you are getting some good instruction. Roads seem like a good idea, but they can have a LOT more hazards than open fields. If you are over heavily forested areas, sometimes a road is your best bet.
I've been introduced to so many quality aviation channels ever since Trevor fake crashed his plane. He did a horrible job making it look legit, even to humans with zero knowledge of aviation, like myself.
So I'm a biologist and I grew up locally in this general area. I'm not a pilot because I'm broke but I've loved aviation all my life and even I saw the absolutely negligence in his decisions as the pilot of this aircraft. Anyway, once he lands, he has literally jumped into my area of professional knowledge so that I can tell you that the supposed hike out videos are taken in at least two different locations, both based on the vegetation in the area and based on the fact that I've actually personally hiked in some of those same areas and those areas are painfully close to Cajon pass. GPS also works in those areas and I know from personal experience because I've used it to track my workouts. Cell service comes from towers and can be disrupted if you find yourself in an area that doesn't have a direct line of sight to any cell tower (it's any cell tower that will transmit your 911 call even if your own carrier doesn't have service in that area). GPS comes from space so one can get it pretty damn well in areas where one can still see the sky (and very often everywhere else too). GPS was specifically developed for the military in situations where they wouldn't be able to connect with an antenna for line of sight communication and information. I have literally be talking on my phone and had it cut out due to lack of signal and checked my GPS, which was still showing where I was. If you have a phone with a charge, you have your way out of the wilderness. Then, don't drink stagnant water no matter what sorts of lifeforms you see living in the water. Tadpoles find some water-borne human pathogens to be gourmet delights and there's no guarantee that they've eaten all those microbes just because you see some tadpoles. If you have to drink wild water, drink from the fastest flowing water you can find and absolute do not drink from a stagnant pool of water or even at the edge of a fast-flowing water way. Literally try to get the water that is itself flowing the fastest but you still might get sick (and I kind of hope this guy did get sick, simply because his video is so very fucked up in so many ways). He claimed to be some kind of safety first, survivalist type in that he had a parachute, but he didn't have helmet (not much to protect?) and something that would have been much smaller than all that crap would have been to have some kind of water purification. You can get little vials of chlorinating tablets that would have fit in his pocket better than his phone. There are these things that I think are called Life Straws that you can use to drink wild water through because they have filters in them. There are water bottles like that too (note that one should not just buy the cheap Brita ones but ones from the camping section designed for drinking water out of a stream or other source of wild water). Also, please realize that you ought to start finding and/or making a shelter long before it even starts to get dark because all the predatory animals can see much better in low light than you can. It's not super likely that a wild animal would attack you for the purposes of eating you but, if you happened to stumble your dumb ass in the relative darkness into a place that they see as threatening to them, they will attack you to protect their home just like any other kind of animal including humans. This guy's supposed plane emergency is such bullshit and I hope they revoke his license. He was too high to know if there was anyone hiking below on the mountain that could have been killed by his plane which, once he left it, he really didn't even know where it would end up crashing. Then there's the insensitivity of crashing a perfectly good airplane whose engine seems to have restarted again after its painfully stupid pilot bailed out of it. A lot of us have lost damn near everything, almost including our own lives for some of us, during this pandemic. There are enough Americans who know what I'm talking about that I shouldn't have to go into it in detail but probably more than half of us are struggling to just get enough of these stupid green pieces of paper to survive. These green pieces of paper for which one can be exchanged for another and a person breaks even but lives lost can never be replaced. To see someone who is both too rich and too stupid to appreciate that it's insensitive for someone who could first afford to become a pilot without going to the military, could afford not one but two airplanes, and then to see such a rich chucklefuck waste the airplane for sure and hopefully also his pilot's license??? Well, it's just hard to take that level of bullshit, particularly at this time in history. I'm not one to condemn people really but I'm also not one to keep my mouth shut about unnecessary stupidity, especially when it's dangerous (if it's not dangerous, I might laugh under other historical circumstances). That riverbed right under where he chicken out of flying a plane looks big enough to land a fucking 747 on (although I'm sure its landing gear would have at least some objection to the softness of what is almost certainly a pretty sandy terrain). If he wants to jump out of planes, that's great, but leave the piloting to someone else in that case. Everything about his video is completely and senselessly stupid. If the dude is reading this, sorry bro, but you should at least learn some more shit about things if you're going to try to do a video like this for clicks. This could have been done so that it wasn't an obvious fake, even though it still would have been egregious considering how many of your fellow citizens are struggling to afford to feed themselves, pay their rent/mortgage (and maybe that's why you needed clicks but, still, the rest of us are told to just get another job and no compassion is given to us).
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Now I wanna see Survivorman react to this too. I'm not a pilot and just have some rather basic outdoor experience but I sure would've drink out of water like that. Life straw is easy enough to throw in a bag, I have a pump filter with a tube so you don't have to get right on top of water (helpful hiking where it might not be safe to do that, but also you can empty the water straight into a bottle or CamelBak) and it fits into half of that plastic bag the ashes are in...
@@mikem720 ; That is what you believe, some believe that they have a certain kind of spirit. Either way it was a useless waste of a perfectly good airplane.
@@mikem720 It's (was) a well-preserved antique, a piece of history. Moreover, it was a perfectly flyable, relatively affordable plane that someone else might've been able to enjoy but won't anymore.
First time watching videos from the aviation community. You guys are so polite lol, if it was me I would be condemning this guy up the river for pulling such a reckless stunt and endangering lives.
Pumping the yoke was to get the prop to stop otherwise people might not believe the engine quit. He also had the trim full nose down so the plane was probably doing 130 mph when it hit the hill. He's in a tough spot now because of an FAA investigation. If he tries to lie or hide anything he's done with having a pilot's license. It's one of their pet peeves.
@@Ken_Dalton yes you can throw things from planes. CFR 91.15 Dropping objects. No pilot in command of a civil aircraft may allow any object to be dropped from that aircraft in flight that creates a hazard to persons or property. However, this section does not prohibit the dropping of any object if reasonable precautions are taken to avoid injury or damage to persons or property.
@@Island_Line_Rail_Productions So yanking the yoke back and forth a few times is reasonable precautions. The best commentary is one person who glided a similar craft from that spot to a nearby airport and overflew it at 3000 ft.
I'm not an aviator, but I want the doofus prosecuted just for the fact that the plane could have gone the wrong way after he abandoned it. Unintended casualties on the ground could have resulted from this stupidity.
Apparently, the region he ditched in is a condor habitat. Even though the plane didn't hit any humans, I guarantee there'd be more than one wildlife conservation authority that'd be thoroughly pissed at him if he splattered a member of an endangered species.
I don't expect him to be flying much longer. If he manages to avoid prison, the least he can expect will likely be loosing his flying privileges. Supposedly that plane had been listed for sale as a parts only offering a few months ago so this situation surely is not going to end well for the idiot.
@@vid30critic I believe it was in a response to the swiss001 or trentpalmer video by someone who had questioned Trevor claiming lawyers had removed a Flightaware record of him making flights around the "accident" site prior to his "accident flight" It's quite a read by the commenter who must have had some knowledge of what seems to be a stunt and apparently Trevor had a pretty animated response to the posters query. Edit; Ok, I went back and found it,, the information I cited was from a poster named etops who commented on the jayalaska review of the "accident"
@@vid30critic The only thing I found (obviously a spoof) was someone on Facebook posted, "N29508 As Is Where Is. Nice little Taylorcraft. Some Damage History. Will need some TLC. Climbs great, and good glide ratio." Included in the photos of the aircraft was Jacob leaping out of it.
I actually watched a video of a non-pilot taking MS sim to the exact location, cutting all power and landing in the valley directly below him like you mentioned, it was in fact quite landable.
8:00 "That's probably not what you want to hear in your pilot in command..." As a complete layperson, now I understand why pilots have that monotone, almost robotic voice when speaking over comms. This gives me that much more respect toward their occupation -- that you need to remain cool and in control at all times. If I was flying, and a pilot started freaking out like this, I wouldn't have confidence in them at all. Insightful observation.
As a Fixed wing/Rotorcraft pilot and skydiver with about 1000 jumps myself, this is 110% a planned stunt! Like you said first thing you do is pitch for glide, look for suitable LZ's and then try and restart. He did the exact opposite of all that! Then when under canopy he choses to land near the plane for some reason, when had had ample altitude to glide to the valley and save himself hours of hiking. But then again he wouldn't have gotten the onboard footage from the cameras had he not. What an idiot! great video though, thanks for a pros perspective.
Imagine that you are watching your "pilot in command" acting irrational and incompetent before he jumps out of the plane, leaving you in the back seat! "When he got out of the plane, things actually got better for the plane." Yeah... Excellent perspective. I have an ad blocker, so I don't ever see any commercials....
Love this kind of video, tell us what you would have done differently, mistakes you saw, it’s very interesting to hear point of view from somebody experienced
This is the first I’ve seen of this obviously staged event. It is really a shame that a nice plane had to be trashed to make it. I have watched several videos of pilots dealing with engine out situations and none of them have come unglued or panicked in any way. They were stressed and tense but I guess their training took over and the landed the plane. I believe you nailed it; total stunt.
So much of this just doesn't add up. The big thing is that that's not his plane. Well it is, in any other video of him flying he's In a red and white experimental kit plane, this plane he purchased only a few months ago. It was so new he hadn't even completed the registration transfer. Throughout the video he keeps saying "I always fly with a parachute!" But none of his other flight videos show one. Nothing adds up.
Apparently the plane in question was sold as spare parts with no airworthiness cert. The Cert it had under his name wasn't issues until the 3rd of January, over a week after he posted the video. He also flew his other, perfectly serviceable plane to the airport where he filmed the intro to get into this one.
It really is a shame. I just got my private here and even though I’m a very young and naive pilot with little experience it seems very much survivable. He clearly had a a lot of altitude and with a stol aircraft like that it should have been no issue to bring it down safely. I hope people can learn on how not to fly by this guy. Also glad that nobody was injured with the reckless behavior of him.
Another RUclipsr (a shame I can‘t remember the name right now) already flew to this location and managed to easily glide to a nearby airfield with his engine on idle. Edit: Found the video.. it was Scooby1961: ruclips.net/video/gCpO10AuV3s/видео.html
There’s no way around it - this guy should not be allowed to pilot an aircraft. If it was staged then he shouldn’t be allowed to fly for obvious reasons, but even if the issues with the plane were legit, then he just demonstrated that he has no idea what he’s doing and lacks the knowledge and expertise that is crucial to flying a plane safely
@@mikem720 Severe lack of airmanship skills even the most basic student pilots are forced to demonstrate before they are allowed to fly solo. This guy if he's not guilty of staging the accident needs to be retrained from the ground up and needs to start over. Some of the more noteable, is not being in control of the aircraft, not pitching to best glide slope, engaging in impusive behaviors in that emergancy scenario, all are VERY serious and any one would get your liscense taken away from you. He had plenty of options and time before the idea of bail out should have even entered his head. But lets be real, he most likely staged this. Either way if I were him I'd be looking on the interwebs for a good aviation lawyer, he's going to need one when the FAA/NTSB grills him.
Pretty bad when letting go of the controls makes the plane fly better. I've actually shown that to some of my newer students.....trim it up and the plane will fly itself.
Thanks John I appreciate You’re input. It’s very evident that he did not plan on saving the airplane. He could’ve easily glided another 5 to 10 minutes With the altitude he had left. I’ve been flying for 12 years in my piper Cherokee and the landing spots you pointed out along the river and some other areas I would’ve chosen. I fly because I love Flying but this guy needs to lose his license. i’ve never had an incident or insurance claim but they increase almost every year and then we wonder why.
He wasn't in the same plane he normally flies, he forgot his paraglider, and there's some videos we see of him flying without a parachute despite him saying he always flies with one. He could have an explanation for everything listed but all the inconsistencies together really makes it look bad for him.
I think this was my third review on the event. In my opinion, this was the best, as it points out two issues which other reviewers only touch on. The lack of awareness with the controls yet being super aware with the camera, and the sheer amount of landing spots I as a layman couldn’t spot. Good job!
Even some phd psychologist dude made a video about this. Quite sad actually hearing him so obviously regurgitating info. He should stick to his field of the soft sciences and leave aviation matters to people who know what they are talking about…😂
@@antonroland the vid doesn't give a lot of hard evidence about anything.. I'm not convinced there was even a real crash.. the whole thing was clearly produced and it's not clear in what order or what is really what...
He has just too many cameras setup including several that he didn't use footage for in the final video. All of it is shot and composed with perfect cinematic quality in mind, including shots of the plane as he jumps out and a camera at the back to film it crash. He would only need one camera running to document a routine flight under normal circumstances.
Just found your channel..thanks for your video enjoyed it.. you were too nice 😆. Subscribed just because of no adds thats really cool of you. And will fully watch your videos and comment.
If you look closely just before the "engine out" he had already opened the door to jump out. I believe this is staged without out a doubt. I also believe when he was opening the door he was looking for a good place to jump out so he could maximize his views. This guy is a sham and needs to have the book thrown at him for such a horrible stunt. Not to mention he won't be winning and academy awards for his horrible acting job!
I saw a pilot on RUclips who flew to the same spot and altitude as this guy "lost power" in a similar aircraft. The pilot dropped his throttles to idle and glided to the nearest airport with about 2000 feet of altitude to spare. Also I found the spot on google earth. beside the river wash, just north of the river, about 4 miles west of the crash site there was a perfectly flat open field, 1/4 of a mile long, 1/2 mile wide with about 4 trees total growing on it. Not sure if if someone was growing grass for sod, or built the worlds largest putting green, but it was there. You could land a C-130 on that field. It would never take off again, but it could land.
I'm not really one to subscribe to aviation channels, but with that being said, thank you for not allowing ads. That is so refreshing from a youtuber. If I was into aviation videoa as much as most of your viewers I would definitely subscribe 👍
I am a new subscriber to your channel, that was a great explanation. You should definitely do some video's on maybe some less known aircraft crashes because some crashes have been covered hundreds of times here on RUclips. I watched all the air crash investigation episodes, i became obsessed with that show. My friends always ask me how am I not afraid to fly after watching all those crashes and i always respond with, that those crashes teach me what not to do and what to be ready for.
As a student pilot on a solo night flight I had the fortunate experience of discovering that a plane will absolutely nearly land itself. Being night in my area the air was totally calm. In this particular case I was instructed to make a straight in approach. Once I intersected the glidepath and trimmed for approach I realized that the plane was staying dead on the PAPI with no control or power inputs from me whatsoever. I had two fingers lightly on the yoke and my feet were hovering over the pedals and the plane literally flew itself to the runway until i had to flare. I think if i was rendered unconscious during the approach I would have walked (or limped) away from the plane landing itself. It was a 152 by the way.
As others have pointed out, the door seems to have been already open before or shortly after the “engine out”. It looks to me as if he was constantly testing the wind resistance on the door so he’d know when he could squeeze out indicating that bailing was his priority from the get go. Great video! 👍🏻
First time viewer, and just subscribed. You were very fair, and about as respectful as you could be, with such boneheaded decisions made by this “pilot”. Look forward to more content.
I love how all the pilots reviewing this are so damn nice. Part professionalism, part disbelief in what they’re seeing. The guy was not a professional pilot, he’s a RUclips douchebag who potentially endangered a lot of people with a ridiculous stunt. I mean, it’s just self-evident..
not really... people do all kinds of dangerous things in the desert.. he no more endangered anyone then you driving a car. assume he purposely abandoned a flyable aircraft, over that area the chance of that aircraft hitting anyone is less then you hitting someone with your car on the highway under full control..
@@mikem720 - He abandoned the plane at over 8000’! It could have glided a very long distance at that altitude, uncontrolled. He didn’t know. Which is all kind of a moot point, because he did it _deliberately!_ Even if it had been real, if he had had a genuine engine failure at that altitude and he just immediately bailed out instead of staying with the plane and trying to land it safely, and it had impacted structures, he’d _still_ be in big trouble!
@@mikem720 People do win lotteries...and thats what this was. He could have started a brush fire ( had near full tanks), or plane could have careened into unsuspecting hikers or animals. Yes the odds are great....but not impossible.
@@mikem720 If a picture is worth a thousand words a video with sound is worth a million! It was a dangerous stunt, and much more for the public at large than for him. Sending a rogue plane off at altitude is practically terrorist territory. I know that wasn’t his intent, his intent was RUclips views, which is almost just as bad..
I normally agree with giving people the benefit of the doubt, but this situation is pretty exceptional. There are so many factors that don’t add up. Premeditation is the only scenario that makes any sense.
First time visitor and just an average joe from Sweden that dreamt about becoming a pilot as a kid, just as my uncle, but life had different plans :) I really like your personality and you have a pleasant voice/accent to listed to. I subscribed in hopes to find more reaction videos about aviation in the future, something I enjoy thoroughly. Have you ever considered reaching out to any of the bigger channels for collaborations? It would likely make your channel boom. Two suggestions would be Kelsey at 74 Gear and also Mentour Pilot. Both are very friendly and I don't think would mind helping out a fellow aviator. Anyway, thanks for the video and all the best!
Mentour Pilot actually just dropped a comment on this. Thanks for your support! I have a bunch of flying videos. If you go to my channel and sort the videos by "most popular" you will see them. Maddie's first solo, X plane 11 kid lands a plane, etc. Check out "Maddie lands in high winds". That's one of my favorites, but it only has about 40,000 views.
I came across Trevor's youtube channel last year. He makes videos about "HOW I ALMOST DIED DOING THIS AND THAT" "HOW I GOT KIDNAPPED IN AN AIRPORT" After watching a few of his video's I knew this dude has a compulsive lying problem. And that he is trying to make a living off of it. Now this happened. Maybe he's finally getting exposed for what he truly is.
@@flash7308 This is typical of many newcomers in AA. Most have gotten by in life by being around others who have willingly cosigned their bullshit. In AA, we don't. They try to explain, rationalize, and justify everything, but we quickly point out the holes and steer them in a better direction. I don't know anything about Trevor, but this kind of behavior pattern is well established. I hope he gets help. You can't keep backing off a lie until it becomes the truth, just sayin.
That's what I always thought... this dude disrespected his deceased friend in so many ways 🙄 ! If he ends up getting jail time, I will not feel sorry for him.
He didn’t trim for best glide. Based on that alone, I think he was trying to prevent the aircraft from gliding off into somewhere with people. So, why? Had he trimmed for best glide, gone though some emergency procedures but nothing was successful, and then trimmed it into the ground to minimize the crash radius, I would think it was an actual accident. Instead, he pulled it way back with the trim fighting him hard while slowing down over a soccer field sized drop zone. It also sounds like the engine restarted on its own during the no-pilot (if there ever was one) segment. Plus: Wasn’t ‘his’ plane. That was left at the departure airport Didn’t carry his paragliding rig Is a horrible actor Does not ‘always’ fly with a skydiving rig Finally, farmers? Thanks to the farmers? What were they farming? Thorny bushes? Rattlesnakes? Nothing. Adds up.
Simple, no airmanship whatsoever. If I were the insurance carrier, I would not pay this out. Thanks John for your bringing this to the forefront. You do not have to be a pilot to see the errors committed. He should be having a talk with a lot of federal and state authorities.
I flew less than 10hrs over 35years ago and had two landing spots picked out before he jumped. Not to mention he never shows what was behind him towards the coast. A beautiful old aircraft destroyed thru stupidity any way you look at it 😢
It is interesting that he conveniently had a GoPro turned on attached to his hand to capture him opening the door before he jumped and views of him below the plane. If you are flying to Mammoth why would you have the GoPro on your hand already. The camera wouldn't be needed until you were about to the paragliding to spread the ashes. This is obviously a staged crash and I hope the FAA grounds him forever and throws the book at him. He is extremely luck a fire wasn't started.
I'm beginning to think every RUclips pilot channel is on this Trevor Jacob fiasco. I have never watched so many new aviation channels before. Thanks to the entire community. You all seem to be the most poite and professional people. I have always been afraid of heights and flying. I feel much more at ease now.
I'm not crazy about heights either. Somehow being strapped in to an airplane doesn't bother me. Looking out the window of a high rise building makes me uncomfortable though. Weird.
I'm way behind on aviation news and really just learned about this yesterday. As someone who can't qualify for a medical or afford pilot training but would love to do so it makes me so mad to see someone throw away an aircraft and his pilot privileges just to get a bunch of views on RUclips. This was one of the worst fake jobs I've ever see. Hope he's never allowed to fly again. Great video John and yes, I'd love to see you do analysis on other accidents/incidents. Take care!
Well .. those two Commercial Pilots that flew a Canadair to its absolute maximum altitude just to see if it would get there , and then tried to keep it there , were pretty stupid .. the engines flamed out and they spent the next 40,000 feet trying to get them restarted .. slammed it into the ground just because they wanted to be part of the 40,000 foot club .. luckily is was deadhead route and no one else was on board ..
@@FunFlyingPilot - Well, you are correct also , and this idiot "hollywood" "clickbait" snow boarder and free faller really pisses me off , moreso than the idiotic college boy antics of "professional" pilots ( and I've met thousands of 'em , airliner and military ) , flying what was very probably an out of annual airplane , that sat unflown for who knows how long , with known maintenance issues , destroying property and endangering a fire that could have really gotten out of hand if that airplane had lit up , and bailing out of an airplane that , potentially , under the right circumstances , if he'd've made a mistake not shutting the fuel off or not turning the magnetos off , could have windmilled and restarted , completely on its own , and kept flying , completely uncontrolled , and crashed into a house or a car and killed innocent people .. for absolutely no logical reason whatsoever .. I've been busting my ass for 37 years , going out of my way and voluntarily working overtime , 12 to 16 hours a day , 6 days a week , since the very first day I started working on F-15 Jet Engines in the Air Force , and later , civilian Heavy Commercial Airliners , and later , WW2 Warbirds and Hueys , making sure every single job I do is done right , with the best parts and the best maintenance practices and the best inspections , even if I have to put in extra hour or two past o beer thirty , giving every single one of my pilots that flies one of my planes the absolute best chance for surviving battle damage or a midair collision or a run in with a 4 Bladed Russian Bear over Alaska , or a colossal clusterfuck of epic proportions battling a gigantic 80 foot Canadian Maple Tree 50 miles north of Yellowknife that jumps up and tries to take three feet of your wing off , and still have enough of an engine and a fuselage and flight controls to get back to base and land safely .. and then this inbred idioticus comes along and slams a perfectly repairable and flyable and safe flying eighty year old airplane into a rock face for a popularity contest .. it's just absolutely unconscionable how minute the miniscule little braincells are that are dying in that empty cavernous brainpan of his ..
'The plane almost found it's way to the river bed.' That's great, it really did fly better without him. That was a thing I think I remember my flight instructor telling me (a very long time ago), 'If you're having trouble controlling the aircraft, lighten up on the controls and let the airplane stabilize itself. Anyway, I'm not going to be nice to this guy, he murdered a beautiful antique airplane for a stupid stunt. He made no attempt to save the aircraft. Now that I've seen this video (like 20 times or so), if I found him dangling from a cliff, without a parachute, I think I'd turn and walk away.
Most entertaining review yet . Nice work . All you have to do is look at any of his other videos he post about doing anything and you can learn a bit about who he is and what makes him tick
Yes please more videos about your experiences flying and accident reviews...always something to learn especially from someone with your years of experience
John, first wanted to let you know I love your channel. Have watched you teach your kids how to fly and watched them actually grow up! The Trevor Jacob crash is a stunt which is really sad see because a great little airplane was destroyed. Take a look at his RUclips channel and you will see he never flies with a parachute. Hopefully they will throw the book at this guy!! At any rate, continue making the great aviation related videos!!
More of these flight analysis videos would be great for your channel, even past events and certain stories you're familiar with or even experienced yourself. Thanks for the good content, and also thanks for the professional demeanor in your videos. Most people on RUclips are completely opposite and overly melodramatic.
Good job John on this, what ever it was. As a pilot and A&P IA I just cringe when watching that beautiful old plane meet its fate. It deserved better and I hope it can tell it’s side of the story to get justice.
He was free falling for an eternity, eating up his altitude and options. Then, you saw where the plane crashed, the side of a mountain, he decided to forego the massive clear ravine below and aim his parachute for the side of the mountain where the plane was.
One important thing I’d like to add which I haven’t seen elsewhere is he actually tries to recommend pilots do this as well. As in wear a parachute and be ready to flee the plane. IMO this is incredibly irresponsible as a pilot as we have to ensure the safety of ourselves and our passengers but also innocent people on the ground. Abandoning the airplane in my opinion is incredibly selfish as where it eventually crashes is all up to luck. Less likely for anyone to get hurt in this situation as it looks very isolated but to broadly recommend it makes me sick to my stomach (not that any true pilot would be dumb enough to listen I’d hope)
I've been tuning up my skills with a commercial checkride eminent. I would have embraced the challenge of landing that aircraft. I strongly feel like everyone; even at the private pilot level, should spend time gliding their airplanes all the way to the ground. The power off 180 accuracy landings are a real skill and confidence builder with regard to energy management and engine out operations. In the case of this pilot, my judgement is that he stopped flying the aircraft even while the engine was still running and then when he jumped out, the lives of anyone and anything down below were suddenly in danger. As pilots, we must be better about where we take these airplanes. I truly wish I would have been in the right seat of that aircraft when he jumped out, because I would have loved the chance to keep everyone on the ground and the aircraft safe. Nice video! No complaints here. By the way, did you ever get your wind indicators sorted out on your 275's?
Still waiting to hear from Garmin about a software update. They have watched the video and aren't happy about it. I used to require my students take an engine failure from altitude all the way down to a landing on grass before I soloed them (they would most likely not be landing on concrete in an emergency). They always seemed to appreciate that maneuver. It gave them a sense of accomplishment (and some added confidence). Good luck on your Commercial check ride!
True. When I was a student we practiced, practiced, practiced and practiced engine out procedures some more - did numerous simulated approaches to farmer's fields, clearings in the woods, and even had one unintentional engine outage on take off. These lessons were valuable as I once lost an engine while on final approach. I'd been taught to keep my approaches slightly high - just in case - and made an uneventful engine out landing and coasted off the runway to keep it clear. Re-started the engine after clear of the runway. Maintenance later found a defect in the carburetor. The point is - this is a skill drilled into student pilots; Trevor showed little evidence he'd learned anything. (And yes, I just subscribed - good content here!)
"Good cinematography, good personalities, all the things I lack" cinematography isn't everything, and you definitely got a good personality, I'd go for a beer with you
Yeah, my take on his behavior with the elevator after the engine stopped producing power is that he wanted to stop the prop to make a more compelling video for non-aviators, so he was slowing down as much as he could to get it to stop windmilling. (Also, note I don't call it an "engine failure", but I refer to it as "the engine stopped producing power," which is likely to be a more accurate description.)
Good video for anyone who is a non-pilot. However, you go far too light on this scammer. This is obviously a stunt and was dangerous for many, many reasons. The valley below has a roadway in it, as well as the river. The risk of fire, of the aircraft hitting someone or damaging property. The bad effect on those who fear flying. The criminal and legal aspects. The more than obvious omissions in good piloting proceedures. Do not appologize for being critical of this hoax. Disgusting abuse of the privilege of piloting an aircraft.
thanks for no interrupting commercials, there was one at the end: I believe you are spot on about this guy wanting views, I hope no regulations are imposed on aviators from this guy's fake stunt, glad no one got killed, I hope the FAA lowers the boom on him--all his videos are of him clowning and appearing to cheat death for views🤔
I'm not a pilot, just an enthusiast with a few hours at the controls of Cessnas. But even I know this guy didn't do anything I've seen countless other pilots do when their engine quits. He made no restart attempts or checks. Just went into GTFO mode. Also, pay attention to his door! It is closed for take off and cruise, but before the engine stops, you can see it's been cranked open. To me, this is clue the bail out was pre-planned. Also, he says he's going to go paraglide. Where is the paraglider? The plane is empty apart from himself. And lastly, he's not wearing a chute in ANY of his videos when flying.
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If anyone ever keeps my ashes in a plastic bag, I hope their engine quits enroute :)
Go ahead and just put my ashes in the wallet.
Also, I may be wrong but best I can tell Johnny Strange died in 2015
I'm pinning this comment to prove that "Just Plane Silly" watched it. (That's a pretty big deal).
If 310 pilot comments, the pin will be removed and replaced! :)
His friend would probably preferer he planted marijuana in his ashes and smoked him. LOL
Like the one guy said: his friend must have been very small. So little bit of ashes.
"If anyone ever keeps my ashes in a plastic bag, I hope their engine quits enroute :)
Go ahead and just put my ashes in the wallet." - This comment was brought to you by Ridge Wallet! (I kid, I kid!)
Strange did die in 2015. Why Jacob waited until now to spread his friend’s ashes (if that’s what they actually were) is just one more weird-ass thing about that video.
Hey.
Great video, I love your respectful but factual approach.
I’m still mulling over if I should do something on this or not myself but I’m a bit afraid I’ll just give him more views.
Keep up the great work!
You are probably too smart to comment before all the facts are known. Love your channel!
do it.. key komponent is camera pointed to the cabin.. and why he cuts of view of the cabin just sec before engine dies. this is staged in my opinion
@@quinnjim Thank you!
No, in this case I could do an exception given the clear lessons that can be taught even from the small bits we can see.
Since no one was hurt, I don’t see any harm here.
@@MentourPilot except for the little fuel he had on board could have exacerbated an already high risk of wildfire in the mountains for no reason other than clicks on a youtube channel.
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I am an emergency responder, I know what someone who is panicked sounds and looks like, that guy was not significantly stressed at all. Just an actor, and not a particularly good one at that.
This is the first video of yours which I’ve watched, but the fact that you disable mid-video ads has made me a subscriber. Thank you!
Awesome! Thank you! You have a very impressive channel.
Same for me. Btw could you talk a little bit about skydiving operations? How do they differ from regular flying in terms of piloting, procedures, etc? Thank you.
@@Jump-n-smash I don't know a whole lot about skydiving. I am thinking about buying a powered parachute. Maybe that would be a cool video.
Of all the communities in which he could have chosen to pull this stunt, he chose the aviation community. One filled with tons of knowledge, analytics, oversight and, generally speaking, one of the most safety-conscientious communities out there. In short, he picked the absolutely wrong venue to try his stupid prank with. Good luck to him, I see some federal charges pending.
Let's hope so. This stupid kind of stunt leaves a tarnish and will be motivation for other dumbf*cks to do equally stupid shit. Ridgewallet should be ashamed that they paid for this felony.
Yup. Suspension or revocation.
Although smaller the sky dive community is not gonna like this. The sport already has enough bad reputation. Every skydive is practically landing in nothing more than a glide. And apparently he couldn’t do the exact same with a plane that is obviously capable.
I have a feeling he won’t be jumping after this.
Well said.
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This guy is the Jussie Smollett of the aviation community. He gives all of us a black eye. IMHO. Mad respect for your take on this guy. Thanks for sharing.
Cheers from Louisiana.
The Jussie Smollett of Aviation. That's hilarious!
Fortunately nothing seriously bad happened otherwise this would be all over the news like one of those gender reveals gone wrong
Had to laugh about it, however Jussie had a lot of people backing him up. I hardly think anyone is going to back this guy up. He's got hold of all the evidence, the FAA is probably going to request the uncut video. If it was really was what happened then he should post his evidence, but the lack of any response is just incriminating in itself.
Even if I were a serious pilot that happened to have 60 go pro's mounted on his plane, I would post every single angle. Why? Well first of all it's 60 times ad revenue and second my plane just crashed, at least make some money back that way. But I guess his ridge wallet deal probably recouped his plane 5 times over.
*No worries!* The only thing I know about aviation is where to purchase a ticket and how to buckle up.
NOT even I bought his "misadventure".
I mean the guy has "near death" experiences as often as I renew my car's insurance...
@@cheesecurd100s I suspect there was a dead condor under that crashed plane but he didn't share that portion of the video.
It would have been hilarious if his plane landed itself safely without him in it. I really felt bad for the poor bird as she hit the ground :(
Happend to a fighter jet. Guy bailed out and it landed in a field. They repaired the plane and it flew again. Now its in a museum.
@@rockcrawler3119 Wait am I stupid or how do they repair a fucking fighter jet from slamming like a pancake into the ground? That can’t be what you meant right lol
@@heatherlynsey3092 I can't recall the plane model, but from memory it was in a flat spin when the pilot ejected. After ejecting, the plane re-established level flight and idled along for a good long while. Effective did a wheels up landing in a field, with remarkably little damage. Repaired and flew again!
He also had the door open before "losing power", as well as having flown over farmland not 5 minutes before. There's another video breakdown on YT that shows the area, and there was enough flat farm fields to put a jumbo down.
This guy did this intentionally, and I hope that he is found criminally negligent besides losing his license. Destroying that 80 year old aircraft was not only criminal but a sin. All for views. Ridiculous.
and he's lucky that plane didnt crash into someone either..
And I'm sure there was a risk of fire (unless of course he had deliberately reduced the amount of fuel on board), which he should be hit with.
Maybe I'm wrong but it looked like it was sorta flat near the crash site if you look at some of the background at the crash site.
He coulda stuffed it there, no doubt it woulda hurt and been a little ugly though.
@@Ayeshteni Even without fuel, there’s a chance that the impact could start a fire in that brush. California is in a multi-year drought, and sparks from the engine hitting or dragging across stone could ignite the brush. Thank god it didn’t.
The place he crashed, Los Padres National Forest, is federal land as the name implies. So the FAA can suspend or revoke his pilot license, but he could be facing federal, state, or county criminal investigations. I hope he makes a video, “I’m prosecuted for reckless endangerment”.
Yeah, you can tell when someone is spoiled. He turned his whole house into a skatepark and does all kinds of stunts. Nothing wrong with that but it throws up Red flags in this case because it would be something he and his crew would do on his channel.
Definitely one of the worst thought out and executed staged events to ever take place
He did absolutely everything wrong here.
From an aviation standpoint - wrong
From a parachuting standpoint - wrong
From a survival standpoint - wrong
From a video editing standpoint - wrong
The title of his video should have been, “How to Get Caught Purposely Crashing an Airplane.”
He wanted to use it as an example of what to do. In reality, it should be an example of what not to do.
@@javaman7199 when does he say that?
So what if he made a movie of crashing a plane. Calm down bunch of Karen pilots.
@@mikem720 That is grounds for the FAA to permanently revoke his pilot's license.
@@javaman7199 not if there wasn't an actual crash.
I've been a flight instructor for 37 years and I owned a 1940 Taylorcraft BC-65, the same model as this except with a Continental 65 instead of the Lycoming. It looks extremely staged to me. During engine failure drill I always teach aviate..get to the best glide, navigate..find someplace to land, communicate..declare a mayday (although he may not have any more than a hand held radio since he probably doesn't have an electrical system) then try for a restart. Not a lot to do on the Taylorcraft other than make sure the fuel is on, carb heat is on and the mags are hot. The only time I've ever worn a chute is when teaching aerobatics or soaring and they are very uncomfortable in my opinion and it looks like he just barely fit in the plane while wearing a skydiving rig. Also, it looks like the top of the mountain to the left of the plane just before it crashes would be very landable. The whole scenario just looks fake to me.
Funny that you mention it but... turns out this plane also had a Continental 65 fitted on the day it crashed, despite being registered with a Lycoming. 🤔
It's not just one thing though. When you look at the totality of the incident and add up all the coincidences and errors, you can only come to one conclusion. 1. He buys a really cheap plane and tells the seller "I am going to do something special with this". 2. He has or has previously owned a bush plane, but ignored the numerous landing options open to an experienced bush plane pilot. 3. He has a go pro with a good view of the controls and panel but does not show any footage. 4. At the moment the engine quits, his first priority is to grab a selfie stick and camera and start recording. 5. Manages to video everything quite clearly but has no video of the car or people that rescue him. 6. Why is his door open BEFORE the engine quits. 7. Constantly mentions "I always wear a parachute, I always wear a parachute", it seems to be an alibi as to why he happened to have one on despite previous videos showing he doesn't usually wear them. 8. He seemed to be in an awful hurry to open the silk, despite having the altitude to try a mayday call on his cell? at the same time attempting an airstart. .Occams razor, or in simple terms, If quacks like a duck, walks like a duck and looks like a duck......it's probably a duck.
I am reminded of a friend of mine talking about his flying lessons. he and his instructor took off, circled up to a couple thousand feet, and then the instructor said, "okay, pop quiz: your engine just died. where do you land?"
my friend checked his options, and decided a wheat field looked like his best bet.
the instructor asked, "what's wrong with the airport directly below us?"
The ashes in a plastic bag followed by shameless marketing definitely got a reaction from me. And just the way he handled the bag... like, I lost a friend two years ago, and handling his ashes in such a nonchalant way is just absolutely unthinkable to me. I have no idea who this guy is prior to this and will refrain from making judgment, but man, that was a serious red flag for me about the nature of his character.
Well said my new RUclips friend. I am 30 hours into getting my PPL and my CFI is always drilling the mantra into my head. Aviate, navigate and then communicate. While flying he will all the sudden say “okay, the engine just blew up and the prop has stopped. What are you going to do?” And he’s listening for “…I feather the prop, establish my best glide, find a place I can land, head for it, then call in a mayday…” He’s always ambushing me like that. But he has me thinking of that stuff as I am flying. I found myself flying straight over a highway and was thinking if I had to there’s the perfect runway. Watch out for those power lines and the upcoming bridge… my CFI had a meltdown when we watched the Trevor video. Like you he called out all the red flags. And he used it as a training tool for me! Surprised he didn’t bill me. He kept pausing it and asking what I would have done each step. Anyways, loved your take on this and liked and subbed
It sounds like you are getting some good instruction. Roads seem like a good idea, but they can have a LOT more hazards than open fields. If you are over heavily forested areas, sometimes a road is your best bet.
So the instructor turned a negative into a positive. That's good training.
I've been introduced to so many quality aviation channels ever since Trevor fake crashed his plane. He did a horrible job making it look legit, even to humans with zero knowledge of aviation, like myself.
So I'm a biologist and I grew up locally in this general area. I'm not a pilot because I'm broke but I've loved aviation all my life and even I saw the absolutely negligence in his decisions as the pilot of this aircraft. Anyway, once he lands, he has literally jumped into my area of professional knowledge so that I can tell you that the supposed hike out videos are taken in at least two different locations, both based on the vegetation in the area and based on the fact that I've actually personally hiked in some of those same areas and those areas are painfully close to Cajon pass.
GPS also works in those areas and I know from personal experience because I've used it to track my workouts. Cell service comes from towers and can be disrupted if you find yourself in an area that doesn't have a direct line of sight to any cell tower (it's any cell tower that will transmit your 911 call even if your own carrier doesn't have service in that area). GPS comes from space so one can get it pretty damn well in areas where one can still see the sky (and very often everywhere else too). GPS was specifically developed for the military in situations where they wouldn't be able to connect with an antenna for line of sight communication and information. I have literally be talking on my phone and had it cut out due to lack of signal and checked my GPS, which was still showing where I was. If you have a phone with a charge, you have your way out of the wilderness.
Then, don't drink stagnant water no matter what sorts of lifeforms you see living in the water. Tadpoles find some water-borne human pathogens to be gourmet delights and there's no guarantee that they've eaten all those microbes just because you see some tadpoles. If you have to drink wild water, drink from the fastest flowing water you can find and absolute do not drink from a stagnant pool of water or even at the edge of a fast-flowing water way. Literally try to get the water that is itself flowing the fastest but you still might get sick (and I kind of hope this guy did get sick, simply because his video is so very fucked up in so many ways). He claimed to be some kind of safety first, survivalist type in that he had a parachute, but he didn't have helmet (not much to protect?) and something that would have been much smaller than all that crap would have been to have some kind of water purification. You can get little vials of chlorinating tablets that would have fit in his pocket better than his phone. There are these things that I think are called Life Straws that you can use to drink wild water through because they have filters in them. There are water bottles like that too (note that one should not just buy the cheap Brita ones but ones from the camping section designed for drinking water out of a stream or other source of wild water). Also, please realize that you ought to start finding and/or making a shelter long before it even starts to get dark because all the predatory animals can see much better in low light than you can. It's not super likely that a wild animal would attack you for the purposes of eating you but, if you happened to stumble your dumb ass in the relative darkness into a place that they see as threatening to them, they will attack you to protect their home just like any other kind of animal including humans.
This guy's supposed plane emergency is such bullshit and I hope they revoke his license. He was too high to know if there was anyone hiking below on the mountain that could have been killed by his plane which, once he left it, he really didn't even know where it would end up crashing. Then there's the insensitivity of crashing a perfectly good airplane whose engine seems to have restarted again after its painfully stupid pilot bailed out of it. A lot of us have lost damn near everything, almost including our own lives for some of us, during this pandemic. There are enough Americans who know what I'm talking about that I shouldn't have to go into it in detail but probably more than half of us are struggling to just get enough of these stupid green pieces of paper to survive. These green pieces of paper for which one can be exchanged for another and a person breaks even but lives lost can never be replaced. To see someone who is both too rich and too stupid to appreciate that it's insensitive for someone who could first afford to become a pilot without going to the military, could afford not one but two airplanes, and then to see such a rich chucklefuck waste the airplane for sure and hopefully also his pilot's license??? Well, it's just hard to take that level of bullshit, particularly at this time in history. I'm not one to condemn people really but I'm also not one to keep my mouth shut about unnecessary stupidity, especially when it's dangerous (if it's not dangerous, I might laugh under other historical circumstances).
That riverbed right under where he chicken out of flying a plane looks big enough to land a fucking 747 on (although I'm sure its landing gear would have at least some objection to the softness of what is almost certainly a pretty sandy terrain). If he wants to jump out of planes, that's great, but leave the piloting to someone else in that case. Everything about his video is completely and senselessly stupid. If the dude is reading this, sorry bro, but you should at least learn some more shit about things if you're going to try to do a video like this for clicks. This could have been done so that it wasn't an obvious fake, even though it still would have been egregious considering how many of your fellow citizens are struggling to afford to feed themselves, pay their rent/mortgage (and maybe that's why you needed clicks but, still, the rest of us are told to just get another job and no compassion is given to us).
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So what?
Visit your local soaring association or flight club you can learn to fly there,...you'll love it,...it's not free but it's about 10 times cheaper and a better learning environment.
@@Dcassimatis no
Now I wanna see Survivorman react to this too. I'm not a pilot and just have some rather basic outdoor experience but I sure would've drink out of water like that. Life straw is easy enough to throw in a bag, I have a pump filter with a tube so you don't have to get right on top of water (helpful hiking where it might not be safe to do that, but also you can empty the water straight into a bottle or CamelBak) and it fits into half of that plastic bag the ashes are in...
It is a shame that such a wonderful aircraft had to die this way.
why? who gives a shit... a plane can't die. it's not a living thing.
I agree Rick, it was a piece of aviation history and it's irreplaceable
@@mikem720 ; That is what you believe, some believe that they have a certain kind of spirit. Either way it was a useless waste of a perfectly good airplane.
@@mikem720 It's (was) a well-preserved antique, a piece of history. Moreover, it was a perfectly flyable, relatively affordable plane that someone else might've been able to enjoy but won't anymore.
First time watching videos from the aviation community. You guys are so polite lol, if it was me I would be condemning this guy up the river for pulling such a reckless stunt and endangering lives.
Pumping the yoke was to get the prop to stop otherwise people might not believe the engine quit. He also had the trim full nose down so the plane was probably doing 130 mph when it hit the hill. He's in a tough spot now because of an FAA investigation. If he tries to lie or hide anything he's done with having a pilot's license. It's one of their pet peeves.
This is true, u cant even throw things from planes let alone yourself!lol hope he looses his license,id have gave that plane a forever home 😔
@@Ken_Dalton yes you can throw things from planes.
CFR 91.15 Dropping objects.
No pilot in command of a civil aircraft may allow any object to be dropped from that aircraft in flight that creates a hazard to persons or property. However, this section does not prohibit the dropping of any object if reasonable precautions are taken to avoid injury or damage to persons or property.
@@Island_Line_Rail_Productions So yanking the yoke back and forth a few times is reasonable precautions. The best commentary is one person who glided a similar craft from that spot to a nearby airport and overflew it at 3000 ft.
I'm not an aviator, but I want the doofus prosecuted just for the fact that the plane could have gone the wrong way after he abandoned it. Unintended casualties on the ground could have resulted from this stupidity.
Apparently, the region he ditched in is a condor habitat. Even though the plane didn't hit any humans, I guarantee there'd be more than one wildlife conservation authority that'd be thoroughly pissed at him if he splattered a member of an endangered species.
Folks like Trevor really shouldn’t be flying. I can’t imagine his insurance company will be writing a check for that plane. Thanks for your comments.
I don't expect him to be flying much longer.
If he manages to avoid prison, the least he can expect will likely be loosing his flying privileges.
Supposedly that plane had been listed for sale as a parts only offering a few months ago so this situation surely is not going to end well for the idiot.
@@rogerbivins9144 do you have source about it being "parts only"? I'd like to read more about that.
@@vid30critic I believe it was in a response to the swiss001 or trentpalmer video by someone who had questioned Trevor claiming lawyers had removed a Flightaware record of him making flights around the "accident" site prior to his "accident flight"
It's quite a read by the commenter who must have had some knowledge of what seems to be a stunt and apparently Trevor had a pretty animated response to the posters query.
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Ok, I went back and found it,, the information I cited was from a poster named etops who commented on the jayalaska review of the "accident"
@@vid30critic The only thing I found (obviously a spoof) was someone on Facebook posted, "N29508 As Is Where Is. Nice little Taylorcraft. Some Damage History. Will need some TLC. Climbs great, and good glide ratio." Included in the photos of the aircraft was Jacob leaping out of it.
He didn’t even register it. What makes you think he insured it. He bought a junk plane for a reason.
I actually watched a video of a non-pilot taking MS sim to the exact location, cutting all power and landing in the valley directly below him like you mentioned, it was in fact quite landable.
Where can I see it?
@@tomothybahamothy I’ll check my watch history for the link 1 sec
@@tomothybahamothy there are several SIM recreations but this is the one i watched. ruclips.net/video/_TJ1id-tbD0/видео.html
@@Daniel.Palmer183f thank you!
Another pilot took an actual plane to the same spot, pulled the engine back to idle, and glided back to a safe landing at the airport.
8:00 "That's probably not what you want to hear in your pilot in command..." As a complete layperson, now I understand why pilots have that monotone, almost robotic voice when speaking over comms. This gives me that much more respect toward their occupation -- that you need to remain cool and in control at all times. If I was flying, and a pilot started freaking out like this, I wouldn't have confidence in them at all. Insightful observation.
"I crashed my plane"
He certainly isn't wrong...
As a Fixed wing/Rotorcraft pilot and skydiver with about 1000 jumps myself, this is 110% a planned stunt! Like you said first thing you do is pitch for glide, look for suitable LZ's and then try and restart. He did the exact opposite of all that! Then when under canopy he choses to land near the plane for some reason, when had had ample altitude to glide to the valley and save himself hours of hiking. But then again he wouldn't have gotten the onboard footage from the cameras had he not. What an idiot! great video though, thanks for a pros perspective.
Good points, Chad. Thanks.
Facts chad. While under that canopy I noticed there was a nice landing area that he tried to edit out with camera angles
How many minutes did he have under the canopy to aim himself away from the bush he landed in? 🤣
@@jasonwebb5964 Not as many as he would have had if he didn't freefall for so long.
John appreciate your breakdown as well he certainly needs to be held accountable blessings to you your family and your channel stay strong warriors
accountable for what?
@@mikem720 accountable for crashing a plane for views and potentially risking a wildfire.
Imagine that you are watching your "pilot in command" acting irrational and incompetent before he jumps out of the plane, leaving you in the back seat! "When he got out of the plane, things actually got better for the plane." Yeah... Excellent perspective. I have an ad blocker, so I don't ever see any commercials....
But the things is. No one was in the back seat 😱
How do you block commercials? I want to do that.
Love this kind of video, tell us what you would have done differently, mistakes you saw, it’s very interesting to hear point of view from somebody experienced
This is the first I’ve seen of this obviously staged event. It is really a shame that a nice plane had to be trashed to make it. I have watched several videos of pilots dealing with engine out situations and none of them have come unglued or panicked in any way. They were stressed and tense but I guess their training took over and the landed the plane. I believe you nailed it; total stunt.
That seems to be what most folks are saying.
So much of this just doesn't add up. The big thing is that that's not his plane. Well it is, in any other video of him flying he's In a red and white experimental kit plane, this plane he purchased only a few months ago. It was so new he hadn't even completed the registration transfer. Throughout the video he keeps saying "I always fly with a parachute!" But none of his other flight videos show one. Nothing adds up.
Apparently the plane in question was sold as spare parts with no airworthiness cert. The Cert it had under his name wasn't issues until the 3rd of January, over a week after he posted the video.
He also flew his other, perfectly serviceable plane to the airport where he filmed the intro to get into this one.
That's what we are taught to do. Aviate, navigate, communicate. And never stop flying the aircraft.
It really is a shame. I just got my private here and even though I’m a very young and naive pilot with little experience it seems very much survivable. He clearly had a a lot of altitude and with a stol aircraft like that it should have been no issue to bring it down safely. I hope people can learn on how not to fly by this guy. Also glad that nobody was injured with the reckless behavior of him.
Another RUclipsr (a shame I can‘t remember the name right now) already flew to this location and managed to easily glide to a nearby airfield with his engine on idle.
Edit: Found the video.. it was Scooby1961: ruclips.net/video/gCpO10AuV3s/видео.html
Subbed as soon as you said you leave the commercials out, and plus you're funny, entertaining, and smart.
Wow! Thanks very much!
Great video, and I like your sense of humour. Id love to see more videos of you reviewing aircraft problems for sure
There’s no way around it - this guy should not be allowed to pilot an aircraft. If it was staged then he shouldn’t be allowed to fly for obvious reasons, but even if the issues with the plane were legit, then he just demonstrated that he has no idea what he’s doing and lacks the knowledge and expertise that is crucial to flying a plane safely
What are the obvious reasons?
@@mikem720 Severe lack of airmanship skills even the most basic student pilots are forced to demonstrate before they are allowed to fly solo. This guy if he's not guilty of staging the accident needs to be retrained from the ground up and needs to start over.
Some of the more noteable, is not being in control of the aircraft, not pitching to best glide slope, engaging in impusive behaviors in that emergancy scenario, all are VERY serious and any one would get your liscense taken away from you. He had plenty of options and time before the idea of bail out should have even entered his head.
But lets be real, he most likely staged this. Either way if I were him I'd be looking on the interwebs for a good aviation lawyer, he's going to need one when the FAA/NTSB grills him.
@@mikem720 don’t you have anything better to do that being here posting stupidly contrarian comments? 🤔
Your comment about when he lets go of the controls things actually improve is a testament to well designed aircraft
Pretty bad when letting go of the controls makes the plane fly better. I've actually shown that to some of my newer students.....trim it up and the plane will fly itself.
"No person is completely worthless... they can always serve as a bad example."
You’re professionalism is so refreshing, after a long day of working construction in 15 degree weather. New subscriber here. Happy New Year
I really appreciate that! I almost bought a WRX. Great cars.
Thanks John I appreciate You’re input. It’s very evident that he did not plan on saving the airplane. He could’ve easily glided another 5 to 10 minutes With the altitude he had left. I’ve been flying for 12 years in my piper Cherokee and the landing spots you pointed out along the river and some other areas I would’ve chosen. I fly because I love Flying but this guy needs to lose his license. i’ve never had an incident or insurance claim but they increase almost every year and then we wonder why.
Scooby flew to the same spot and glided back to the nearest airport: ruclips.net/video/gCpO10AuV3s/видео.html
He apparently is not in the captain going down with the ship school of thought.
He wasn't in the same plane he normally flies, he forgot his paraglider, and there's some videos we see of him flying without a parachute despite him saying he always flies with one. He could have an explanation for everything listed but all the inconsistencies together really makes it look bad for him.
I think this was my third review on the event. In my opinion, this was the best, as it points out two issues which other reviewers only touch on. The lack of awareness with the controls yet being super aware with the camera, and the sheer amount of landing spots I as a layman couldn’t spot. Good job!
Thanks very much!
Genuinely loved watching this video. Aviation is interesting for me and I was sold. Can't wait to watch future videos 👍 keep it up
Thanks Roberto! I have 185 videos on my channel. I recommend “maddie’s first solo flight” or “maddie lands in high winds”.
One cool thing that has come out of all this drama is I have learned a lot about planes from people who actually know what they are talking about
this is actually almost zero people
Even some phd psychologist dude made a video about this. Quite sad actually hearing him so obviously regurgitating info. He should stick to his field of the soft sciences and leave aviation matters to people who know what they are talking about…😂
@@antonroland the vid doesn't give a lot of hard evidence about anything.. I'm not convinced there was even a real crash.. the whole thing was clearly produced and it's not clear in what order or what is really what...
@@mikem720 well, in the Magisterial District of RUclips - not this video to be fair - this guy is already serving about 37 sentences😂
He has just too many cameras setup including several that he didn't use footage for in the final video. All of it is shot and composed with perfect cinematic quality in mind, including shots of the plane as he jumps out and a camera at the back to film it crash. He would only need one camera running to document a routine flight under normal circumstances.
Right like who wakes up and goes “just incase I lose all engines I’m gonna set up four cameras in all angels”. What a jackass
Just found your channel..thanks for your video enjoyed it.. you were too nice 😆. Subscribed just because of no adds thats really cool of you. And will fully watch your videos and comment.
I really appreciate it, Doug!
Just came across your channel and subscribed, I'd love to see more analysis liks this on crashes/mishaps. Cheers🍻
Thanks!
If you look closely just before the "engine out" he had already opened the door to jump out. I believe this is staged without out a doubt. I also believe when he was opening the door he was looking for a good place to jump out so he could maximize his views. This guy is a sham and needs to have the book thrown at him for such a horrible stunt. Not to mention he won't be winning and academy awards for his horrible acting job!
I saw that too. I was wondering if he just messed that up in editing. Looks pretty bad.
I watched someone fly the same route, put their engine at idle...and glide to the nearest airport with room to spare
I saw a pilot on RUclips who flew to the same spot and altitude as this guy "lost power" in a similar aircraft. The pilot dropped his throttles to idle and glided to the nearest airport with about 2000 feet of altitude to spare. Also I found the spot on google earth. beside the river wash, just north of the river, about 4 miles west of the crash site there was a perfectly flat open field, 1/4 of a mile long, 1/2 mile wide with about 4 trees total growing on it. Not sure if if someone was growing grass for sod, or built the worlds largest putting green, but it was there. You could land a C-130 on that field. It would never take off again, but it could land.
I'm not really one to subscribe to aviation channels, but with that being said, thank you for not allowing ads. That is so refreshing from a youtuber. If I was into aviation videoa as much as most of your viewers I would definitely subscribe 👍
We do guns, archery and other stuff too. Thanks for checking us out!
I am a new subscriber to your channel, that was a great explanation. You should definitely do some video's on maybe some less known aircraft crashes because some crashes have been covered hundreds of times here on RUclips. I watched all the air crash investigation episodes, i became obsessed with that show. My friends always ask me how am I not afraid to fly after watching all those crashes and i always respond with, that those crashes teach me what not to do and what to be ready for.
Thanks very much!
As a student pilot on a solo night flight I had the fortunate experience of discovering that a plane will absolutely nearly land itself. Being night in my area the air was totally calm. In this particular case I was instructed to make a straight in approach. Once I intersected the glidepath and trimmed for approach I realized that the plane was staying dead on the PAPI with no control or power inputs from me whatsoever. I had two fingers lightly on the yoke and my feet were hovering over the pedals and the plane literally flew itself to the runway until i had to flare. I think if i was rendered unconscious during the approach I would have walked (or limped) away from the plane landing itself. It was a 152 by the way.
You can do basically the same thing in a helicopter. The only difference is you're coming down a roughly 60 degree glide slope at about 2,500 FPM.
As others have pointed out, the door seems to have been already open before or shortly after the “engine out”. It looks to me as if he was constantly testing the wind resistance on the door so he’d know when he could squeeze out indicating that bailing was his priority from the get go. Great video! 👍🏻
Maybe. Another possibility is he didn't know what to expect when then engine failed and wanted to make sure his exit route was ready.
First time viewer, and just subscribed. You were very fair, and about as respectful as you could be, with such boneheaded decisions made by this “pilot”. Look forward to more content.
Thanks! Check out "Maddie's first solo flight" or "X Plane 11 kid lands a real plane".
wow, great work with this video for not being a full time video editor or anything like that this is really amazing.Keep it up!
Thanks!
I love how all the pilots reviewing this are so damn nice. Part professionalism, part disbelief in what they’re seeing.
The guy was not a professional pilot, he’s a RUclips douchebag who potentially endangered a lot of people with a ridiculous stunt. I mean, it’s just self-evident..
not really... people do all kinds of dangerous things in the desert.. he no more endangered anyone then you driving a car. assume he purposely abandoned a flyable aircraft, over that area the chance of that aircraft hitting anyone is less then you hitting someone with your car on the highway under full control..
@@mikem720 - He abandoned the plane at over 8000’! It could have glided a very long distance at that altitude, uncontrolled. He didn’t know.
Which is all kind of a moot point, because he did it _deliberately!_
Even if it had been real, if he had had a genuine engine failure at that altitude and he just immediately bailed out instead of staying with the plane and trying to land it safely, and it had impacted structures, he’d _still_ be in big trouble!
@@mikem720 People do win lotteries...and thats what this was. He could have started a brush fire ( had near full tanks), or plane could have careened into unsuspecting hikers or animals. Yes the odds are great....but not impossible.
@@HailAnts you don't know any of that, you saw some video and made a whole bunch of assumptions
@@mikem720 If a picture is worth a thousand words a video with sound is worth a million! It was a dangerous stunt, and much more for the public at large than for him.
Sending a rogue plane off at altitude is practically terrorist territory. I know that wasn’t his intent, his intent was RUclips views, which is almost just as bad..
I normally agree with giving people the benefit of the doubt, but this situation is pretty exceptional. There are so many factors that don’t add up. Premeditation is the only scenario that makes any sense.
Yours is the video I was looking for, Cap. Many thanks.
That's great to hear. Thanks, Philip!
First time visitor and just an average joe from Sweden that dreamt about becoming a pilot as a kid, just as my uncle, but life had different plans :)
I really like your personality and you have a pleasant voice/accent to listed to. I subscribed in hopes to find more reaction videos about aviation in the future, something I enjoy thoroughly.
Have you ever considered reaching out to any of the bigger channels for collaborations? It would likely make your channel boom. Two suggestions would be Kelsey at 74 Gear and also Mentour Pilot. Both are very friendly and I don't think would mind helping out a fellow aviator.
Anyway, thanks for the video and all the best!
Mentour Pilot actually just dropped a comment on this. Thanks for your support! I have a bunch of flying videos. If you go to my channel and sort the videos by "most popular" you will see them. Maddie's first solo, X plane 11 kid lands a plane, etc. Check out "Maddie lands in high winds". That's one of my favorites, but it only has about 40,000 views.
Obviously another RUclips scammer. Hopefully he is charged with federal offences for making false statements to the aviation authorities.
I came across Trevor's youtube channel last year. He makes videos about "HOW I ALMOST DIED DOING THIS AND THAT" "HOW I GOT KIDNAPPED IN AN AIRPORT" After watching a few of his video's I knew this dude has a compulsive lying problem. And that he is trying to make a living off of it. Now this happened. Maybe he's finally getting exposed for what he truly is.
@@flash7308 Next video "How I escaped from Alcatraz"
@@flash7308 This is typical of many newcomers in AA. Most have gotten by in life by being around others who have willingly cosigned their bullshit. In AA, we don't. They try to explain, rationalize, and justify everything, but we quickly point out the holes and steer them in a better direction. I don't know anything about Trevor, but this kind of behavior pattern is well established. I hope he gets help. You can't keep backing off a lie until it becomes the truth, just sayin.
Some further internet sleuthing:
ruclips.net/video/23kOieM5ce0/видео.html
That's what I always thought... this dude disrespected his deceased friend in so many ways 🙄 !
If he ends up getting jail time, I will not feel sorry for him.
He didn’t trim for best glide.
Based on that alone, I think he was trying to prevent the aircraft from gliding off into somewhere with people. So, why?
Had he trimmed for best glide, gone though some emergency procedures but nothing was successful, and then trimmed it into the ground to minimize the crash radius, I would think it was an actual accident.
Instead, he pulled it way back with the trim fighting him hard while slowing down over a soccer field sized drop zone.
It also sounds like the engine restarted on its own during the no-pilot (if there ever was one) segment.
Plus:
Wasn’t ‘his’ plane. That was left at the departure airport
Didn’t carry his paragliding rig
Is a horrible actor
Does not ‘always’ fly with a skydiving rig
Finally, farmers? Thanks to the farmers? What were they farming? Thorny bushes? Rattlesnakes? Nothing. Adds up.
Only thing they're farming out there is weed.
The fact that you had 'Johnny' in a bad as a prop had me hollering with laughter! Thank you for that!
You’re enjoyable to watch Mr. John, love your dry humor. I’m not a pilot, I just greatly admire pilots, hope this little feedback helps.
It does help!
Simple, no airmanship whatsoever. If I were the insurance carrier, I would not pay this out. Thanks John for your bringing this to the forefront. You do not have to be a pilot to see the errors committed. He should be having a talk with a lot of federal and state authorities.
I flew less than 10hrs over 35years ago and had two landing spots picked out before he jumped. Not to mention he never shows what was behind him towards the coast.
A beautiful old aircraft destroyed thru stupidity any way you look at it 😢
Wow…stumbled onto your channel…funny as heck about the lunch bag…earned a new sub.
I’d definitely be very interested in hearing you break down accident case studies or viral aviation videos
It is interesting that he conveniently had a GoPro turned on attached to his hand to capture him opening the door before he jumped and views of him below the plane. If you are flying to Mammoth why would you have the GoPro on your hand already. The camera wouldn't be needed until you were about to the paragliding to spread the ashes. This is obviously a staged crash and I hope the FAA grounds him forever and throws the book at him. He is extremely luck a fire wasn't started.
Also flying to Mammoth from Lompoc and heading 45 minutes southeast instead of proceeding northeast.
If he can’t be criminally prosecuted for the crash, he should at least be forced to wear 25 kilo ankle weights for the rest of his life.
I'm beginning to think every RUclips pilot channel is on this Trevor Jacob fiasco. I have never watched so many new aviation channels before. Thanks to the entire community. You all seem to be the most poite and professional people. I have always been afraid of heights and flying. I feel much more at ease now.
I'm not crazy about heights either. Somehow being strapped in to an airplane doesn't bother me. Looking out the window of a high rise building makes me uncomfortable though. Weird.
I'm way behind on aviation news and really just learned about this yesterday. As someone who can't qualify for a medical or afford pilot training but would love to do so it makes me so mad to see someone throw away an aircraft and his pilot privileges just to get a bunch of views on RUclips. This was one of the worst fake jobs I've ever see. Hope he's never allowed to fly again. Great video John and yes, I'd love to see you do analysis on other accidents/incidents. Take care!
I like your perspective on this. I subbed too, cool that you kept the commercials out. 👍
I appreciate it!
I am 42+ Year Pilot and have never seen such poor decision making from any pilot - even student pilots.
So it wasn't staged?
@@mikem720 That is for you to decide. I already have.
Well .. those two Commercial Pilots that flew a Canadair to its absolute maximum altitude just to see if it would get there , and then tried to keep it there , were pretty stupid .. the engines flamed out and they spent the next 40,000 feet trying to get them restarted .. slammed it into the ground just because they wanted to be part of the 40,000 foot club .. luckily is was deadhead route and no one else was on board ..
@@bradhartliep879
You are correct. Stupidity is not limited to the people on the ground.
@@FunFlyingPilot - Well, you are correct also , and this idiot "hollywood" "clickbait" snow boarder and free faller really pisses me off , moreso than the idiotic college boy antics of "professional" pilots ( and I've met thousands of 'em , airliner and military ) , flying what was very probably an out of annual airplane , that sat unflown for who knows how long , with known maintenance issues , destroying property and endangering a fire that could have really gotten out of hand if that airplane had lit up , and bailing out of an airplane that , potentially , under the right circumstances , if he'd've made a mistake not shutting the fuel off or not turning the magnetos off , could have windmilled and restarted , completely on its own , and kept flying , completely uncontrolled , and crashed into a house or a car and killed innocent people .. for absolutely no logical reason whatsoever .. I've been busting my ass for 37 years , going out of my way and voluntarily working overtime , 12 to 16 hours a day , 6 days a week , since the very first day I started working on F-15 Jet Engines in the Air Force , and later , civilian Heavy Commercial Airliners , and later , WW2 Warbirds and Hueys , making sure every single job I do is done right , with the best parts and the best maintenance practices and the best inspections , even if I have to put in extra hour or two past o beer thirty , giving every single one of my pilots that flies one of my planes the absolute best chance for surviving battle damage or a midair collision or a run in with a 4 Bladed Russian Bear over Alaska , or a colossal clusterfuck of epic proportions battling a gigantic 80 foot Canadian Maple Tree 50 miles north of Yellowknife that jumps up and tries to take three feet of your wing off , and still have enough of an engine and a fuselage and flight controls to get back to base and land safely .. and then this inbred idioticus comes along and slams a perfectly repairable and flyable and safe flying eighty year old airplane into a rock face for a popularity contest .. it's just absolutely unconscionable how minute the miniscule little braincells are that are dying in that empty cavernous brainpan of his ..
'The plane almost found it's way to the river bed.' That's great, it really did fly better without him. That was a thing I think I remember my flight instructor telling me (a very long time ago), 'If you're having trouble controlling the aircraft, lighten up on the controls and let the airplane stabilize itself. Anyway, I'm not going to be nice to this guy, he murdered a beautiful antique airplane for a stupid stunt. He made no attempt to save the aircraft. Now that I've seen this video (like 20 times or so), if I found him dangling from a cliff, without a parachute, I think I'd turn and walk away.
Found your channel as a result of this deliberate plane crash, so some good came out of it.
Thanks!
Great video/channel! Appreciate your quality approach to content. Subbed!
Thanks, Collis!
Most entertaining review yet . Nice work . All you have to do is look at any of his other videos he post about doing anything and you can learn a bit about who he is and what makes him tick
Good video … never have seen one from you. Really good commentary. Don’t sell yourself short. You’re a very smart man. I subscribed.
Thanks very much, James!
you seem so nice! if I was a pilot and saw this guy doing this and breaking the law I would tear the guy apart!
You was very polite about this clown in your vid, I think the authorities should take away his pilot license for such things
Yes please more videos about your experiences flying and accident reviews...always something to learn especially from someone with your years of experience
Thanks very much.
Thanks for another great video John!
I’ve never heard a real pilot say “lucky I brought my backup parachute” they usually deal with the problem and fly the plane
Absolutely!
John, first wanted to let you know I love your channel. Have watched you teach your kids how to fly and watched them actually grow up! The Trevor Jacob crash is a stunt which is really sad see because a great little airplane was destroyed. Take a look at his RUclips channel and you will see he never flies with a parachute. Hopefully they will throw the book at this guy!! At any rate, continue making the great aviation related videos!!
I appreciate it, Timothy. I looked at his channel to see him wearing the parachute on every flight.......nope!
R.i.p little plane 😔🥺
More of these flight analysis videos would be great for your channel, even past events and certain stories you're familiar with or even experienced yourself. Thanks for the good content, and also thanks for the professional demeanor in your videos. Most people on RUclips are completely opposite and overly melodramatic.
Thanks for the input!
Good job John on this, what ever it was. As a pilot and A&P IA I just cringe when watching that beautiful old plane meet its fate. It deserved better and I hope it can tell it’s side of the story to get justice.
Trevor should lose his license for this stunt, it was obviously staged, hope the FAA throws the book at him
I can't imagine they wouldn't. They've thrown the book at other pilots for a lot less lol
He was free falling for an eternity, eating up his altitude and options. Then, you saw where the plane crashed, the side of a mountain, he decided to forego the massive clear ravine below and aim his parachute for the side of the mountain where the plane was.
And the asshole still landed in a bush. 🤣
No ads is a very thoughtful selfless act. 1 X sub for you. Great respectful comments, although I doubt Trevor deserves such respect.
The more I hear about the incident, the more I think that I gave him too much credit.
Yes! would be great to hear your perspective on mishaps and near-misses
One important thing I’d like to add which I haven’t seen elsewhere is he actually tries to recommend pilots do this as well. As in wear a parachute and be ready to flee the plane. IMO this is incredibly irresponsible as a pilot as we have to ensure the safety of ourselves and our passengers but also innocent people on the ground. Abandoning the airplane in my opinion is incredibly selfish as where it eventually crashes is all up to luck. Less likely for anyone to get hurt in this situation as it looks very isolated but to broadly recommend it makes me sick to my stomach (not that any true pilot would be dumb enough to listen I’d hope)
I've been tuning up my skills with a commercial checkride eminent. I would have embraced the challenge of landing that aircraft. I strongly feel like everyone; even at the private pilot level, should spend time gliding their airplanes all the way to the ground. The power off 180 accuracy landings are a real skill and confidence builder with regard to energy management and engine out operations. In the case of this pilot, my judgement is that he stopped flying the aircraft even while the engine was still running and then when he jumped out, the lives of anyone and anything down below were suddenly in danger. As pilots, we must be better about where we take these airplanes. I truly wish I would have been in the right seat of that aircraft when he jumped out, because I would have loved the chance to keep everyone on the ground and the aircraft safe. Nice video! No complaints here. By the way, did you ever get your wind indicators sorted out on your 275's?
Still waiting to hear from Garmin about a software update. They have watched the video and aren't happy about it. I used to require my students take an engine failure from altitude all the way down to a landing on grass before I soloed them (they would most likely not be landing on concrete in an emergency). They always seemed to appreciate that maneuver. It gave them a sense of accomplishment (and some added confidence). Good luck on your Commercial check ride!
True. When I was a student we practiced, practiced, practiced and practiced engine out procedures some more - did numerous simulated approaches to farmer's fields, clearings in the woods, and even had one unintentional engine outage on take off. These lessons were valuable as I once lost an engine while on final approach. I'd been taught to keep my approaches slightly high - just in case - and made an uneventful engine out landing and coasted off the runway to keep it clear. Re-started the engine after clear of the runway. Maintenance later found a defect in the carburetor. The point is - this is a skill drilled into student pilots; Trevor showed little evidence he'd learned anything. (And yes, I just subscribed - good content here!)
@@coldstreams Thanks, coldstreams!
Sorry for all my comments but thanks for the no ads!!! It made me a subscriber mother worse than a ad just when ur getting into a video
"Good cinematography, good personalities, all the things I lack" cinematography isn't everything, and you definitely got a good personality, I'd go for a beer with you
Yeah, my take on his behavior with the elevator after the engine stopped producing power is that he wanted to stop the prop to make a more compelling video for non-aviators, so he was slowing down as much as he could to get it to stop windmilling. (Also, note I don't call it an "engine failure", but I refer to it as "the engine stopped producing power," which is likely to be a more accurate description.)
Good video for anyone who is a non-pilot. However, you go far too light on this scammer. This is obviously a stunt and was dangerous for many, many reasons. The valley below has a roadway in it, as well as the river. The risk of fire, of the aircraft hitting someone or damaging property. The bad effect on those who fear flying. The criminal and legal aspects. The more than obvious omissions in good piloting proceedures. Do not appologize for being critical of this hoax. Disgusting abuse of the privilege of piloting an aircraft.
Thanks for your even-tempered treatment of this event. You've earned my subscription.
I appreciate that!
no commercials! immediate sub broths, much respect
I appreciate it, Dom!
If he tried to restart the motor or glide for a while, searching for the landable spot, I would say maybe... But this is completely ridiculous!
100!
Stop giving him the benefit of the doubt. There is practically no doubt that he staged this.
thank you so much for your video! we really appreciate your experience and insight!
Thanks for watching, Elizabeth!
thanks for no interrupting commercials, there was one at the end: I believe you are spot on about this guy wanting views, I hope no regulations are imposed on aviators from this guy's fake stunt, glad no one got killed, I hope the FAA lowers the boom on him--all his videos are of him clowning and appearing to cheat death for views🤔
I'm not a pilot, just an enthusiast with a few hours at the controls of Cessnas. But even I know this guy didn't do anything I've seen countless other pilots do when their engine quits. He made no restart attempts or checks. Just went into GTFO mode.
Also, pay attention to his door! It is closed for take off and cruise, but before the engine stops, you can see it's been cranked open. To me, this is clue the bail out was pre-planned.
Also, he says he's going to go paraglide. Where is the paraglider? The plane is empty apart from himself. And lastly, he's not wearing a chute in ANY of his videos when flying.