The FAA said in an April 11 letter to Jacob that there was evidence that he operated the flight to cause it to crash, and that he opened the left side pilot door before he claimed.
Jacob put cameras inside and outside the plane to get the best angle on the stall and nosedive, as well as the pilot wearing a parachute pack from the start of filming.
Jacob didn't contact emergency Air Traffic Control via radio, didn't try to restart the plane's engine, and didn't scope out places to safely land before exiting the plane, according to the FAA.
The letter said that your flight on November 24, 2021, was careless of reckless so as to endanger the life or property of another. According to the letter, the acting administrator decided that the safety in air commerce and air transportation needed to be revoked. Jacob will be fined up to $1,644,000 per day if he doesn't surrender his pilot certifications.
All the FAA is authorized to do is issue fines. The case could be referred to the Department of Justice by the agency.
In the video, titled “I Crashed My Plane,” Jacob is flying his small aircraft over the Sierra Nevada mountains when external cameras show the propeller stop rotating. Jacob jumps and deploys a parachute, while the plane crashes into a forest. The bulk of the video is Jacob narrating himself wandering around post-escape. At around the 12-minute mark, he claims he experienced a random “engine out.” The video has netted more than 1.75 million views at the time of writing this.Jacob claimed that he was flying between the two airports when his plane broke down. He released another video in which he said he couldn't talk about the plane crash, but that the truth would come out.
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