A YouTuber accused of purposely crashing his carpenter’s plane in a dictation to go viral has pleaded hangdog to obstructing a federal investigation . Trevor Jacob face up to 20 long time behind bars after admitting he deliberately doss a small-scale airplane in California and attempt to hide out the grounds , consort to theUS Department of Justice .

On May 11 , 2023 , it was announced that Jacob pled guilty to one reckoning of destruction and concealment with the spirit to obstruct a federal investigation . He ’s set to make his first court appearance in the amount weeks .

bear in 1993 , Jacob is an uttermost sports athlete who represented the US in snowboard at the2014 Winter Olympicsand has since channeled his energy into social media stardom via a popular YouTube channel .

His now - ill-famed video – which is surprisingly stilllive on YouTubeat the time of writing – titled “ I crash My plane ” was upload on December 23 , 2021 . It ’s since racked up over 3 million views .

It show Jacob vanish his aeroplane over Los Padres National Forest on November 24 . Around 35 arcminute after have off from Lompoc City Airport , Jacob opened the cockpit ’s small threshold and jumped with a chute ( not leave his selfie stick to record the whole incident ) .

" I ’m just so happy to be live , " Jacob told the camera after landing . " That ’s why I always flee with a freaking parachute . "

Within the video , Jacob take he is lost in the wilderness with no phone sign , before finding the shipwreck and recovering the onboard television camera confiscate to the plane . After hours of roaming , he appears to come across some farmers who he claimed “ save him . ”

On November 26 , 2021 , Jacob advise the National Transportation Safety Board of the planer crash . He initially said he void the aircraft because it had lose a full loss of world power mid - gentle wind . Since he could not name any safe landing options , he claimed , he had no other option than to parachute out of the plane .

This turned out to be a lie .

In the week follow the plane crash , Jacob told investigators he no longer knew where the woodworking plane wreck landed . However , investigators also found that this was a lie .

On December 10 , he and a friend flew by helicopter to the wreckage site and lifted it back to Rancho Sisquoc in Santa Barbara County . Jacob then drive the wreckage to Lompoc City Airport and unloaded it in a repair shed where he broke up the planing machine into small parts and disposed of them in trash bins at the airport and elsewhere , according to the Justice Department .

“ Jacob admitted in his plea accord that he intended to make money through the TV , ” it total .