The FAA has granted Trevor Jacob — a professional snowboarder, pilot, and excessive sports activities fanatic whose stunts have earned him 143,000 YouTube followers — a short lived pilot certificates, regardless that he was sentenced to 6 months in jail earlier this week for deliberately crashing his personal aircraft.
Jacob posted a video on his YouTube channel this week displaying him flying a aircraft, with the title “I Obtained My Pilots License Again! However Going To Jail…”
Jacob’s momentary pilot certificates permits Jacob to legally fly a aircraft for 120 days whereas his utility for a everlasting license is taken into account, the FAA advised Enterprise Insider.
And since Jacob is not required to report back to jail till the tip of January, in line with a court docket submitting within the Central District of California, that offers him ample time to take to the skies as soon as once more.
The FAA first revoked Jacob’s license in April 2022 after an investigation discovered that he had “demonstrated an absence of care, judgment and duty by selecting to leap out of an plane solely so [he] might report the footage of the crash.”
However regardless of Jacob’s license revocation and later conviction, the FAA advised Enterprise Insider that its rules permit a pilot to reapply for his or her license only a yr after it was taken away, except a drug offense was concerned.
Jacob crashed his aircraft in 2021, parachuting himself to the bottom and visiting the scene of the crash whereas recording the complete saga for a YouTube video he titled “I Crashed My Airplane.”
He pleaded responsible in June to at least one rely of destroying and concealing proof with the intent to impede a federal investigation; prosecutors allege he eliminated the aircraft wreckage so investigators could not discover it.
Federal prosecutors say Jacob did the stunt to seal a sponsorship deal selling a pockets firm on his channel.
Jacob didn’t instantly reply to BI’s request for remark.
