Some people are willing to do anything to get attention and be in the public eye.
Many YouTubers have lied about different things in order to get more people to watch their videos.
For example, there are two young guys who supposedly found out that they were both dying of different illnesses, and they looked and looked for help. You know what they think healed them? A chiropractor.
Now, that’s pretty scummy, but the stunt that one man recently pulled to generate millions of views and subscribers to his channel was really bad, and he’s been caught red-handed.
According to the Federal Aviation Administration, a daredevil YouTuber abandoned his plane mid-flight and parachuted to safety last year as a PR stunt, stating that it was all a horrible catastrophe in order to garner a few million views on the video channel.
In a video posted to YouTube on Nov. 24, Trevor Jacob depicted what he claimed was a life-saving parachute jump from his plane before it crashed in the Los Padres National Forest in California after the propeller supposedly stopped operating during a flight.
According to a letter acquired by The New York Times, Jacob was barred from flying by the Federal Aviation Administration on April 11 for operating a single-engine aircraft in a “careless or reckless manner so as to endanger the life or property of another.”
“You demonstrated a lack of care, judgment and responsibility by choosing to jump out of an aircraft solely so you could record the footage of the crash,” the agency said. “Your egregious and intentional actions on these dates indicate that you presently lack the degree of care, judgment and responsibility required of a certificate holder.”
Take a look at the video below. Tell me if you think it’s suspicious. I would point out the short amount of time that he spent trying to restart the plane and the lack of radioing in the problem.