In a video seen by almost three million folks and titled “I crashed my airplane,” Trevor Jacob seems to expertise engine hassle whereas flying over southern California in November 2021.

The dramatic footage exhibits Jacob, 29, ejecting from the single-engine aircraft – selfie stick in hand – and parachuting into the dense vegetation of the Los Padres National Forest.

Cameras positioned everywhere in the plane present its out-of-control descent into the forest, and its eventual crash.

Jacob movies himself climbing to the wreckage the place he seems dismayed to find the water he packed has disappeared.

Viewers see him bushwhacking by poison oak and over hills as he seemingly struggles to seek out civilization, giving common updates about how thirsty he’s, and the way misplaced he feels.

Finally, he stops to scoop water from a stream, and moments later comes throughout a automobile and obvious salvation as evening falls.

In the weeks after the incident, investigators from the National Transportation Safety Board and the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) launched a probe into the crash, and Jacob was ordered to protect the wreckage.

The FAA, the physique that regulates flying within the United States, yanked Jacob’s pilot’s license in April 2022, AFP reported.

In a plea settlement, Jacob admitted he supposed to impede federal authorities when he disposed of the wreckage, and created the video to generate profits by sponsorship with a pockets firm.

“Jacob further admitted he lied to federal investigators when he submitted an aircraft accident incident report that falsely indicated that the aircraft experienced a full loss of power approximately 35 minutes after takeoff,” a press release from the Department of Justice stated.

He has agreed to plead responsible to at least one rely of destruction and concealment with the intent to impede a federal investigation, against the law that carries a statutory most sentence of 20 years in federal jail.