Finding the Trevor Jacob's Plane Crash - Exact Location
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- Опубликовано: 2 янв 2022
- I found the exact location of the Trevor Jacob's plane crash in the San Rafael Wilderness in the Los Padres National Forest north of Santa Barbara through an analysis of the footage.
See part II where I discuss his hike out and other details here: • Trevor Jacob Plane Cra...
Trevor Jacob's Original Video: • I Crashed My Airplane
Awesome video and investigation!!!! I love how this crash is showing the best of the internet and how it can be used as a collaborative tool to solve a problem. Every day additional videos are release the build on others. For those who did not hear you list the suspected crash coordinates its 34 deg 48min 53.61s north, 119 deg 57min 40.37s west. There is a good chance I can fly there this week, find the crash site, and try and recreate the landing options he had available to him. Will depend on weather.
I exchanged emails with the US forest service yesterday regarding the wreckage... I recieved a very generic/vague reply to the effect that they have lots plane crashes every year in the forest service system...UNTIL... I emailed back with gps location...
They got right back with me saying that they are aware of it and investigation is going on now.
@Davin What is your best guess of his location when the engine stopped?
If you analyze when he's about to land under canopy, it appears it was a jump cut. I almost wonder if he put himself in the shrubbery.
@@scooby1961 Good question, I am knowledgeable about maps and hiking, but not so much about aviation but after playing around in Google Earth and looking at the viewpoints I think he was between 8000 and 11000 feet. There is another youtube video where someone did a Microsoft Flight sim recreation of the accident that might give more clues about the height.
If you do fly the crash site, make a video! Also, there is a hiking trail along the ridge just above the crash site (Hurricane Deck Trail). A competent hiker could hike from the Manzana Schoolhouse Campsite at the end of the road and likely make it down to the plane and back within a day. I wonder if someone in the area will attempt this.
A channel with 49 subscribers that has so far made more progress on the incident than any authority has publicly announced. Excellent work, Davin!
What an absolutely pointless statemet.
The farmers who supposedly found him are wearing rather nice clean shoes. Also he never shows their faces or mentions their names. My bet is he hiked to the road where his friends picked him up.
Most likely explanation.
That is my guess, but I have no evidence to confirm it.
No doubt
I had that same thought.
After seeing the placement of the road, I assume he picked Bald Mountain as a waypoint to do the jump. It's a few miles from the wilderness border, so pretty safe for an aircraft trimmed to spiral as a single engine aircraft would be by default with no P-factor happening. Can guarantee he won't drop the plane on someone's property by mistake, but can be close enough to a riverbed leading to a road to minimize the risk of getting lost.
This is EXCELLENT! Please make sure to make this available to the FAA investigation!
I know this wonderful detective very personally. He does incredible research on every topic he’s interested in, with skills he’s carefully developed over years and years. :)
At 5:48 the prop is windmilling, this would restart the engine! His pulling back on the yoke was to stall the prop, but not enough to send the plane into a stall/spin. What's with the apparent aux fuel tank on the left wing strut with a line going to the engine compartment? The loose hose inside the cabin suggests he had disconnected the wing tank. No electrical system yet he had a headset on? Did he have a handheld radio? and if so, did it depart the aircraft with him? What was the cylindrical thing inside his jacket just below his chest harness? What was his glide radius? and many more questions as well
He didn't "actually start to have trouble". Everything he did was planned.
This man has disgraced my home airport and the airplane I've seen before. Can't wait to see him on an episode of monsters
He lived at that airport in a hanger, so it was literally his home airport lol
Hey Davin! Just uploaded a video, gave you a shout out for finding the location … bit called you “Devin” instead of Davin, sorry. I was easily able to glide to the Santa Ynez airport. As an aside, I did not find the wreckage but its hard to safely fly and look and I didnt want an authentic crash video :)
I read today he got help with a friend and had a helicopter move the wreckage to an unknown site.. If true thats a huge no-no to the FAA..
@@avocadoflight where did you read that?
@@avocadoflight I heard that he had chartered one, not that it was successful... I'm looking for a primary source as well on that. My GA channels are bursting with fruit flavor on this but most is just the relative stupidity of bailing out of a classic aircraft with a great glide profile and stall speed around the blinding speed of your average moped. This is to GA what someone finding a well-maintained Model A Ford, loading it with Tannerite, and remote control driving it through traffic while shooting at it near a playground would be to car guys. According to the A&P mechanic who used to service it, he wasn't low on gas and it's not like California has issues with fires getting out of control
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The fact he didn't start a fire and/or kill someone is luck. I'm glad the only casualty was the plane. But, it was a really nice classic plane that was mechanically sound and airworthy at time of sale. It's not just horrible for GA's image, it's the loss of a perfectly good aircraft used by many people to train on in the years before this assbasket bought it.
@@avocadoflight you read this where?
@@jamesmichaelfreer not sure about links here. But google the independent article and his name. There were a few others and youtubers who mentioned it as well.
Crash location: 34°48'53.47"N 119°57'40.18"W
Parachute location: 34°48'53.04"N 119°58'0.93"W
See part II of this video for a bit more details on parachute location. ruclips.net/video/4EZ3Uom7tFo/видео.html
Amazing work! Your map navigation detective skills were top notch! I’m a pilot and a backpacker too. In appreciation of your work I immediately subscribed!
Thanks - I didnt put much effort into the video and it certainly could be improved, but wanted to share. You should plan a hiking/backpacking trip to the crash site. Looks like you could easily hike up to the ridge above it on the Hurricane Deck hiking trail.
Wow man you’re detective work here was absolutely awesome to watch. I can’t wait to see what becomes of this.
Fantastic job investigating this! I live on the Central Coast and grew up backpacking and camping through the San Rafael Wilderness. Hurricane Deck is an amazing hike and spot to hike to. Nice work and thanks so much for sharing. I am just so glad that Trevor didn't cause a wildland fire in that backcountry of ours.
Please do not encourage anyone to watch his video. He gets credits! This is a total scam, if not criminal!
Very informative!! Great job :) You hit the nail on the head with everything.
Excellent detective work!
There had to be a road into the location as a 'farmer' or more like a friend drove in to pick him up.
Yes there is a 4WD road that goes to within a few miles of crash site.
Brilliant work!
Nice video there, Davin! Great analysis. I think you've got it exactly right. Using your numbers of where the plane "landed," and plotting them on an FAA sectional chart, we can see that the crash site is about 13 miles north of the Santa Inez Airport (as Scooby pointed out), which is out in a big valley. From 8000 or 9000 feet, that little plane might not have been able to glide all the way to the runway, but it sure could have made it back to lower, flatter, more hospitable terrain. But ol' Trev didn't even try. Ah well...
OF COURSE IT WAS A STUNT!
Nice analysis thanks!
I can also tell you that some of the places where the film shows him walking are near the Cajon Pass, which is too far south to be a rational flight path but there is a place where people often paraglide.
Awesome forensics!!! Great job!
Great job on the map investigation skills! The community detective skills are impressive.
Thanks! I just published Part II of this video if you are interested in his hike out of the crash site and his parachute landing location. ruclips.net/video/4EZ3Uom7tFo/видео.html
@@devoidbmx1 thanks for the second video. Good job on your analysis and locating Trevor’s path, obstacles, distances, etc. love your work
His point of impact is at the intersection of Bull and Shite.
Great job, looked up on google earth and you nailed it. I’m going to compare the video of his departure airport and see if I can figure that out.
Well done.Thanks for posting this.
Very good investigation -such great work.
Thanks for finding this, I tried. The yellow valley in the distance I mistook as the Edwards dry lake bed and was looking far too east. Solid work!
Thanks - a few other people also found it, some of them posted videos before I did so I cant claim to be the first, but I did find it myself.
That dry lake bed area your talking about looks like new Cuyama area.
Pretty damn accurate. Fantastic video!
Great video Davin. As I hate scammers, this little adventure has got my attention. I have a backgound in aerial mapping and if I was trying to establish where plane crashed i would look at your aerial\satellite imagery providers. I have looked at site on my satellite imagery account and unfortunately the pixel resolution is too low to make out any aircraft. I am not in USA and I have tried a few public aerial databases with no luck finding coverage around this time. I would suggest try asking your network if anyone knows a Surveyor or Engineer who may have a commercial provider account who can help out.
It's absolutely amazing how many of you got played on this.
Spot-on.....Good job.
I used to hike at Hurricane Deck. And that riverbed is probably the one I'd walk down on my way back to Davey Brown's Schoolhouse, and the campground where I'd have my car parked.
Nicely done video. That's a really awesome area, but rough ground.
You know this area better than most then! Thanks for watching.
There's the trail right above the crash site on that white cliff called White Ledge.
A a ways down and west is Manzana Narrows where the water collects in deep narrow pools under trees. It's the place to be in the summertime. The top is hot and super dry.
Quality investigation
Well done!
Excellent! Liked and subbed 🍻
Davin, you are a rock star. Great vidio.
good job, thanks for this video
I'm convinced everything this guy posts is a work.
For sure it is. Look at his most popular video. It's some slub in a cop costume playing a role.
Good job!
Great video. "Drainage" is called a draw tho lol. Can't wait to see what happens from this stunt.
We all need to Sub this man!!
"how to record screen on youtube" Haha, I dont know if you meant to left that, but it gave me a chuckle.
This was my first time doing such a thing, or recording a video like this. Hopefully I will get better at it with more practice. I just wanted to get the info out there.
Well done investigation, it would be interesting to see if you could get a good triangulation of his position and HEIGHT, when the engine stopped, just to see how far he could have glide from that position.
Someone else has posted a Microsoft flight simulator recreation of the situation and managed to land the plane, I’d suggest you find that video.
Actually after playing around in Google earth quickly and looking at what he can see at the time I'd guess he was definately higher than 8000 feet (otherwise he'd not be able to see over the 6000' mountain range to his North). Realistically (very rough guess) I'd say he was probably between 8 and 11 thousand feet at the time.
Somebody donate me a taylorcraft I will go to the exact location. The exact elevation. I will shut the engine off. And I will fly the aircraft without jumping out to a safe landing spot I will not take a parachute. All I ask is that I can keep the aircraft when I'm done
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Can we get Ridge Wallet to sponsor this?
After a quad went 30 feet over a cliff and had to buy $30 in rope and hook to fish it back up I can say it would be perfect for stopping a rogue aircraft intentionally.
He had Highway 46 West to aim for.
Lol nice job I located it almost a couple weeks ago been flying it over and over in msfs
Did you see he swapped engines. Look at the exhaust, valve covers and sparkplugs on the day of the flight. He even went so far as to paint the valve covers red so it wouldn't be as noticeable. Let's hope he gets a hefty fine for littering in a National Forest. He also did not transfer the registration into his name.
Very good video you need more credit
You might be interested in this comment about how to determine the location and altitude of the plane: Ryan McGowan
"If you have Photoshop or any image editor and Google Earth, you can do it. I'll give you some instructions, but first, the theory:
If you stood at the intersection of lines on the ground radiating away from you like wheel spokes and took photos in any direction, every radial line would appear as vertical lines in the image. It seems counterintuitive that converging lines appear parallel, but if a line didn't appear vertical in an image, the camera is not directly over that line. Think of looking down the sights of a rifle. If you are inline with the sights, the rifle appears directly below and vertical in the image of your field of view. Inversely, if you drew vertical lines on an image, where they converge is the viewpoint of the camera. I drew the lines in Photoshop and mapped them out on Google Earth. All the lines intersected within 60 feet, and if you discard the outliers, you are less than 50 feet. There's some error due to lens distortion, and for that you need to model the camera with software, and get the real-world XYZ coordinates, etc. As for vertical, that's a little trickier, but already knowing the horizontal position, I can just use parallax and find the upper and lower limits to when middle ground ridges obscured background objects, and averaged the two. I could see clearly on Google Earth that 9,500 feet exposed background objects not available in the image, and 9,300 feet obscured them. So somewhere in the middle of that is the actual altitude of the camera. So:
In Photoshop: Draw a line along the horizon. Draw a series of lines 90° to the horizon across the image.
In Google Earth, using the line tool, draw lines on the ground that pass through the same points as the lines in the image. Extend them long enough to intersect. The lines that are at the furthest ends of the photograph have the worst distortion, so give them less weight. They will actually converge behind the camera.
For the altitude in aerial images, the earth is relatively flat in most places, to it's a bit trickier using simple geometric rules. It's really easy on ground-level photos with buildings: The intersection of the horizon line with any point on the image is going to be at the same altitude. Horizon lines are where level parallel lines converge.
Look for something in the image to give you parallax and raise or lower the viewpoint until the parallax matches. That's easy. Without two object to reference to for parallax, you could assume that the camera has about the same angle measurements per pixel horizontally as it does vertically and do some trig to derive your camera location, but without a calibrated camera, that won't be very accurate.
If you want to get more accurate, you get a program like Photomodeler and take a few frames. Now you are using stereoscopy and getting very accurate locations."
ruclips.net/video/oRSZuC84CEg/видео.html
I just pinpointed that exact location on another guys channel that flew around and took video trying to locate the wreckage using His and Trevor's videos.
Yeah you don't find the San Andreas Fault (straight ridges) just anywhere in the world or even just anywhere in California. The other thing you also often find once you've found the San Andreas Fault? Civilization, because the San Andreas Fault makes it relatively nice so people live there in greater abundance.
I finally flew this in FS2020, cause it's too far away IRL. I couldn't figure out how to jump out though. Total bummer.
Rough country for sure. But as others point out, GA pilots rarely fly with chutes, and if they do, then not with one like his. And he was out so fast, I doubt he had taken time to evaluate best options, other than bailing out. Me, well I would have looked at the river valley for a moment at least. I would like to see a really forensic investigation into this story.
the best part about his "always carry a chute" claim is he has multiple flying videos where he's not carrying a chute.
Of course to be fair they all have a similar format.
Jacob is flying.
Jacob isn't wearing a chute.
Jacobs plane doesn't crash.
@@louiscypher4186 I then saw he had other videos where he lands on gravel bars in rivers and lakes. I suspect he is bad for all GA pilots and I hope he gets seriously dealt with.
@@kiwikeith7633 yeah he's the sort of sob that gets the rest of us slapped with extra bullshit costs and regulations which don't even do anything to prevent it happening in the future.
Smashed the like button and subscribed. I am linking your videos to my latest video!! Great work sir.
Something that pops out at me is you used a prominent land mark to find where he jumped out. Do you think he used the same prominent land mark to jump out at so he knew where he was and had trails not too far away?
I think when he was first opening the door to look down, he was making sure he was going to bail out over the area where his buddies would later 'rescue' him, while not having their faces shown on camera, just their shoes.
And screenshots of the area taken before the flight.
Truly informative…NTSB and FAA I wondering…Remember in these United States if you have enough money you can buy your way out of issues such as this act… the fact that he rented an helicopter to remove the the crashed aircraft…tampering with an a crash site thicken the plot…that means he’s willing to buy his way out of this, makes it BAD for all of us in general aviation …
@@ElonHusky there will be no updates from the FAA until the investigation is complete.
Oh and I live in Goleta,Ca.almost due South of the crash site.
“Bald mountain, that’s a convenient name” 😂
I've seen other vids where he seemed to be looking for a certain spot before the engine failure. I've hiked and camped this area before and Manzana schoolhouse is right there. It's where people often camp and even have helicopters fly in their supplies from Santa Maria! COINCIDENCE? It's no more than four miles from the crash site to a campground with a ranger nearby!
Exactly what I was thinking. His buddies are down there somewhere at a pre arranged spot to 'rescue' him, so he wants to make sure he jumps over the right spot, while still trying to remember his acting lines for his dramatic 'engine failure'.
a thought is that this was a reality based commercial ad for Ridge wallet, can you see if the collaborated and got the permits to crash the aiplane please, thanks for your cool vids !!
In a wild guess I think that your forensic video analysis of the suspect crash would be of paramount interest to the NTSB and the insurance company ( i could be wrong and the pilot is just plain stupid ? )
They are already investigating and know about it, they also know where it was. I wasn't the first person to find the exact location, but I learned that after I posted this video.
You know he's watched this.....and he's crapping his pants!
I did this on my smartphone in less time. Too easy with all the clues.
Great work! I hope the FAA knows how to use RUclips to assist in its investigation! :-)
On one of the other analysis videos, it was mentioned there were rumors the crash was already recovered by a helicopter hired by Trevor. Has anyone followed up on this to find out who recovered the plane?
Great! Now time to load up in the sim and ace the landing which he should have been able to do!
Has anyone looked for the ADSB data for the possible helicopter recovery?
Odd part ..how did he parachute so close to crash site ?looked to me they went different dirrections ..i have a different thought ,ibthink he had a tracking device and went to crash site same day he removed it
Can someone please fly over the site and get a picture of the aircraft?
Was the helicopter required to file any documentation on what he did, and were GPS coordinates part of any filing?
I think a "drainage" is actually called a ravine.
Is the tail number blurred out? Seems like it should be readable in these shots.
Hmm...wilderness are as close as possible to the edge easy 2 mile walk to the nearest road. Quick jaunt to the ridge top for a text to his buddies. That "river" I think I could even land in. Flat and sandy. Maybe check the cell coverage in the area. I bet he could get a text out.
Obviously he retrieved the cameras off the plane ?
He's only a couple of miles from the Manza Schoolhous camp area,...and there's enough smooth area to have landed safely!
I call BS on his crash!
I think the term is BARE mountain BARE. They don’t have hair. At least that’s what I thought until you to,d us the name of Bald mountain. Great video and summation!!
No ELT / EPIRB? If his cameras survived....
34°48'53.61"N 119°57'40.37"W
Google Earth crash coordinates from 8:31
What website are you using to combine topo maps google like that?
It’s called Gaia GPS. Very good web mapping software.
Your welcome.
Where did he land his parachute ( in the video ).. the single strangest thing for me is him by sheer coincidence jumping directly over the most suitable place for miles to land a parachute for miles, but then choosing not only to land in a bush up a mountain, but also manages to find the supppsed wreck.
My theory is he jumped directly above a perfect landing area becuase that is where he landed.
The rest is a production. 2 pilots, one stays in plane. Possibly also the footage of the plane doing a fly-by below Trevor taken from either another jump on another day, or from a paramotor or drone
To me it seems likely he landed his parachute on the ridge near the plane which looks like quite a bad landing spot. It looks like he followed the plane down to the crash site. Landing in the flat river bed would have been easiest but climbing back up to the crash site would have been hard. Some people have noted he could have tried to also land his plane on the dry river bed.
@@devoidbmx1 i find it kinda weird that the plane ended up below him at all. Given his 3000ft plus headstart.
Pretty sure he was the only one onboard when he bailed out. The Taylorcraft is a very stable aircraft and quite capable of gliding along on it's own.
In normal flight, the effects of the engine would tend to make the plane turn left, that plus his weight in the left seat would also create a slight left turn, as such the aircraft would have a slight right turn trim built into it so it would fly straight under normal circumstances. Now with the engine not running, and his weight missing from the left seat, the plane would set up a slow continuous turn to the right. Also as most of his body mass is slightly behind the centre of gravity, when he jumps out, the aircraft would tend to go slightly nose down. Once it gains speed from the dive it would level out a a bit and glide fairly quickly down, but not a screaming vertical dive.
@@pylon500 with zero weight on board a slow porpoising turning descent, assuming only one jump occured, how did this plane end up below Trevor after Trevor took a minimum 20 second delay ( maybe longer ) putting him at least 3000ft below the plane ( likey more if we add descent lost during parachute opening stage ) ? Not only did the plane end up catching up to be below him ( despite his parachute descending too ) but happened to land within his glide cone so that he supposedly saw it land and chose to kand fairly near it.
Non of this adds up. Possible ? Nothing is impossible...but its alll just vert very very unlikely.
Unless we assume a fully staged event with a team and a script and locations. And a second pilot.
Also, faily easy to edit out a pilot in the seat next to him. Im not saying a pilot was hiding in the back when he jumped. Note how his selfie cam never looks to co pilot side when he is having his 'emergency'
And now to grab a plane and land in that damn river bed in MSFS..
Less than 10 miles from farm land to the west. Someone had rough coordinates early on in this and it made it clear to me it was staged.
I'll check my Google earth VR on Steam with my Oculus Quest 2.
It will put you right in is shoes virtually.
you don't think there are spiders on those trails do you?
Regardless, what an idiot..and the FAA SHOULD yank any license, rating and/or endorsement he currently has. He shouldn’t even be insurable IMO. Beyond reckless behavior/endangerment…
he endangered no one
@@mikem720 he could have started a fire
@@mikem720 the plane could have hit and killed people, with all the petrol on board, it could have started a massive bushfire, it could have flown into another plane / helicopter, etc.. what he did was incredibly dangerous and reckless!
He had lots of flat land to land the plane in according to those simulations demonstrations. But does anyone know why he had a fire extinguisher in his pants leg according to a frame by frame shot some guy did on his channel. Also I noticed the front of his jacket was wet too. Perhaps it was that rough Terran he landed in. 866,000 views thus far. He would have gotten more views if he just landed the plane. Well .... Maybe not. He is on lots and lots of channels and people are entertained by his "bravery" ...Not
He could have landed somewhere in cuyama easily or near ventucopa.
Scooby1961 flew a re-creation of the engine out scenario in a simular video and lands in Santa Ynez. Others have shows there are very close by fields you could land in.
@@devoidbmx1 I hope they throw the book at him. Carless full set of gas in that tank and with all the wildfires we've have such a stupid act. Watching some of his videos he's been tanking on views and he was searching for himself he said.
Definitely a stunt looking to skyrocket in subs.
Bald Mountain? 👹
Juicy Smellit was more creative.
He was right around where I made some recent videos.
The peaks are around 1400ft.
You can get a visual lf the local area in a few of my recent videos.
He crashed in a wilderness area. Check the regulations, but my understanding is a drone would not be allowed in fly within a designated wilderness area.
@@devoidbmx1 I fly sub 250 Gram models. It doesn't qualify as a recreational model. It's a toothpick.
I have a recreational license but I don't fly those because of the stipulations.
That particular area is private property anyhow. That's why there's barbed wire fences.
There's even a house hidden just below where I fly.
If you ever scan my videos you'll see my flying is safe.
That isn't the subject anyhow.
I'm the type of UAV Pilot people will stop to watch, I have never had a complaint and I've been registered since quadcopter registration became a thing... Even got my money back for the first time.
Quadcopter Pilots are 1% of your problem.
Those people don't care just like the subject of this conversation.
What I see is a major problem and it has nothing to do with quadcopters.
It's sad that a twelve-year-old can't get a quadcopter license but an idiot like this guy can.
@@devoidbmx1 We all know how "Organized" the FAA is.
ruclips.net/video/Fud15S_abv0/видео.html
Please tell me someone will go find it and bring it back to prove this was a scam
Jesus, if it’s one thing Ive learned it’s to not video tape your crimes. There’s always one very smart internet sleuth.
there is zero public access to that area he had to have crossed rancho sisquok to get out and i do not recommend any one going out there to look around either on foot or in the air. the right to over fly private property means exactly that you get to fly through , if you are lingering especially now with all this publicity the ranch will probably call the cops AT MINIMUM .....as for going out there on foot they wont even call the cops because they will just take all your stuff beat the shit out of you and dump you at the gate ...that is the sort of reputation Rancho Sisquok has locally or did back when i was a kid and they get quite a bit of latitude because they are an original Spanish land grant.
MSFS lets go!!!!! lol
Finding the exact location of Trevor Jacob's prison cell.
He had plenty of places to land.. the entire event was staged….
Bad Video Quality!
The knob in question is Trevor Jacobs. Crashing an aircraft for RUclips views and wallet sales. This is the modern age of knobism.