• SamsonSeinfelder@feddit.de
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    1 year ago

    Saved you the click:

    A YouTuber has been jailed for six months for deliberately crashing his plane for views, and then lying about it to US investigators.

    • Carighan Maconar@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      Should also have all his social media deleted and be prevented from accessing social media for a few years. He clearly can’t handle it.

    • HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      That better not be the nice jail either. It better be the one, with, aww who am I kidding it’s the states there are no nice jails

  • ruckblack@sh.itjust.works
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    1 year ago

    Great, was wondering what happened with this fucking moron. The FAA won’t let you get a license if you’ve ever smoked weed or sought treatment for depression. But chucklefucks like this can make it their whole career. Only wish the sentence was far longer.

    • undeffeined@lemmy.ml
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      1 year ago

      The FAA won’t let you get a license if you’ve ever smoked weed or sought treatment for depression.

      For real? But it’s fine if you drink alcohol… some rules seem so arbitrary…

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      Not true, it’s up to the AME to clear you as safe to fly in view of seeking treatment for depression and if you seek treatment for depression while holding a pilots license it grounds you until the AME reclears you, much like any other life threatening health conditions.

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        1 year ago

        The fact that they treat pretty much any treatment of mental illness, no matter how long ago, as “probably actively suicidal and a danger to themself and others” is what I take issue with. And it’s a tedious, time consuming, expensive process to try to get cleared. To the point where several flight instructors, and the chief pilot, have told me I should’ve just lied on the federal form. Because that’s what everyone else does. But whatever, I have cheaper hobbies.

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    1 year ago

    i started to read the article and thought ‘these are dumb alarmist charges, boys can’t even have hobbies anymore’, and i read this

    The plane crashed into the Los Padres National Forest 35 minutes after take-off. Jacob hiked to the site and recovered the footage. He then uploaded the video entitled “I crashed my airplane” to YouTube on 23 December, which contained a promotion for a wallet company, prosecutors said.

    and now i’m totally on their side

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      1 year ago

      it’s even worse.

      • he delayed the research of the site by providing wrong information (while he knew perfectly where the crashed plane was… because he walk to it to get the videos footage)
      • payed an helicopter to extract the plane scrape to a secret location (while ntsb was still looking for the crash site)
      • then destroyed the evidence, so the ntsb could not perform any checks

      i could add also that he had a fire extinguisher hide in his pant (to be able to access the footage if the plane was still on fire i presume), the original motor was may be replaced before the crash, the plane door was not properly lock (to facilitate his jump)… ha and yes, he had a jumpsuit (no fitting a normal pilot activity)…

      Well, all of that was badly done. He’s a piece of shit that should never flight again.

    • StorminNorman@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      I have. In various games. The annoying thing about this to me is that they didn’t even hang around to watch the pretty fireball (cos, you know, “gravity”). That’s like 95% of the reason for doing it.

      Edit: actually, I bet there wasn’t even a fireball cos real life physics aren’t the same as game physics.

      • QuinceDaPence@kbin.social
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        1 year ago

        There was no fireball, he probably had just a small amount of fuel and shut off the valves before bailing, but we don’t know because he had the plane helilifted out and destroyed, destroying the evidence. In his video he went to the plane after to get his gopros, and it’s just kinda smushed. If there was a fireball it probably would have started a wildfire, which is part of the reason he’s going to jail.

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          1 year ago

          Also these kinds of planes tend to keep more or less stable when not given input due to their design. So no dramatic nosedive, probably just steadily dropped altitude as it lost speed.

      • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world
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        1 year ago

        Yeah, reality is pretty mid tbh. Ridiculously unbalanced too.

        The “Billionaire” and “Idiot Zealot” classes really need to be nerfed yesterday!

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    1 year ago

    “Content creators” are legitimately one of the single worst things to have happened.

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    1 year ago

    We should also penalize the platform, in this case YouTube, if the offense was demonstrably committed for the sake of posting content on these platforms for personal gain. That way we also disincentivize this kind of behaviour at the source.