If one tries more than one thousand you will have to have success at least once, in the end there might even be one who has pity with that person.
Of course it’s statistics…
The Scottish version of the facts
That’s hilarious!
Well, he now got his comeuppance: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/20/us/trevor-jacob-youtube-plane-crash.html
It’s behind the paywall of the NYT, but you can normally read an article or tow. In short, the FAA has revoked his license. Good on them.
172driver wrote:
It’s behind the paywall of the NYT, but you can normally read an article or tow. In short, the FAA has revoked his license. Good on them.
I could read it after turning off Javascript in my browser.
What does it say?
The NY Times quotes from a letter to Jacob from the FAA:
“During this flight, you opened the left side pilot door before you claimed the engine had failed,” the F.A.A. wrote.
Before jumping out of the plane, the agency said, Mr. Jacob made no attempt to contact air traffic control on the emergency frequency, did not try to restart the engine by increasing airflow over the propeller and failed to look for a place to safely land, “even though there were multiple areas within gliding range in which you could have made a safe landing.”
After the crash, Mr. Jacob also “recovered and then disposed of the wreckage,” the F.A.A. said.
“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.”
Also
The agency ordered Mr. Jacob to surrender his private pilot certificate and said he could face “further legal enforcement action” if he did not do so, including a civil penalty of up to $1,644 for each day that he did not return it.
Here is another source
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Before jumping out of the plane, the agency said, Mr. Jacob made no attempt to contact air traffic control on the emergency frequency, did not try to restart the engine by increasing airflow over the propeller and failed to look for a place to safely land, “even though there were multiple areas within gliding range in which you could have made a safe landing.”
This is just nonsense. In an emergency situation you simply do what you have to do to survive. “Not according to protocol” is a silly comment.
“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.”
True, but is that what really happened? Probably, but that’s for a court to decide IMO.
That part of it is poorly worded or perhaps selectively quoted. What they should have written (or perhaps did write) was that such actions, among others in the video, demonstrated to them that the ‘emergency’ was not genuine and that they concluded he had abandoned an airworthy aircraft, entirely deliberately, purely for the spectacle.
The gist is “we don’t believe you because you did…” rather than a direct critique of actions taken in a (claimed) emergency.
