With prison only weeks away , Trevor Jacob had another misadventure in the skies over Santa Barbara County this weekend. Jacob will be spending six months in Lompoc federal prison, as recommended by the courts, after pleading guilty to lying to federal aviation authorities after he ditched a small plane over Los Padres National Forest in November 2021 for the purpose of making a YouTube video.
Jacob’s pilot’s license was revoked by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) five months later, and then was restored on a temporary basis while his new pilot application “is working its way through our standard process,” a spokesperson for the FAA said earlier this month. “Under the regulations, a pilot can reapply for a new certificate after a year unless a drug offense was involved,” she said.
After Jacob parachuted out of his aircraft two years ago, he carried the Taylorcraft off the mountain with a rented helicopter, cut the plane into pieces at Lompoc Airport, threw them into different dumpsters, and then told FAA investigators that he didn’t have the coordinates of the crash site. This May, he pleaded guilty to obstruction.