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Still from the video of the accident: "Endangering the life or property of another"
Photo: Trevor Jacob / YouTube
The US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has apparently revoked the private pilot license of the well-known YouTuber Trevor Jacob with immediate effect.
The reason is Jacob's behavior during a sensational incident last November.
The FAA accuses the YouTuber of jumping out of a plane in mid-air "just to take footage of the crash." The "New York Times" reports this with reference to a letter from the authority.
The background is the crash of a propeller plane with which Jacob was traveling in the western United States on November 24 last year.
On Christmas Eve, the extreme athlete and YouTuber then uploaded a video of the incident, which has since been viewed more than 1.9 million times.
Title: "I crashed my plane." Even then, amateur investigators questioned the portrayal and accused him of having staged the engine failure and the crash.
Jacob's nearly 13-minute video shows the 28-year-old taking off in a propeller plane and flying over Los Padres National Park in southwest California.
Several cameras mounted on the cockpit, wing and horizontal stabilizer film the flight.
At some point it seems as if the engine would fail.
Jacob opens the door and finally jumps off while the machine sails on in the background without a pilot and finally crashes.
The FAA had already confirmed at the time that it was investigating the incident.
Now she appears to have concluded that the YouTuber violated US aviation regulations and operated his single-engine airplane in a "careless or reckless manner that endangered the life or property of another".
According to the New York Times, this is what it says in a letter from the authority.
The newspaper reported that Jacob himself said he had no knowledge of the FAA order and the results of the investigation.
Last week, however, he said about the incident via YouTube that, according to his lawyer, he was not allowed to comment on it at the moment.
The US newspaper also reports that according to the FAA, Jacob also did not attempt to contact air traffic control before his jump.
He also made no attempt to restart the engine or to land the aircraft safely by gliding.
There were "several areas within glider range where you could have landed safely," the FAA wrote to Jacob.
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