YouTuber Trevor Jacob has been sentenced to six months in prison, prosecutors said.
Jacob intentionally crashed a small plane in California on 2021 for a YouTube video.
Two days later, Jacob informed the National Transportation Safety Board of the plane crash, and said he would help them locate the crashed plane, prosecutors said.
When pleading guilty in June, Jacob said he'd agreed to advertise a sponsor's product — a wallet — in his YouTube video, prosecutors said.
AdvertisementJacob did not address why he had pretended the plane lost power in his 2021 video and his aircraft accident incident report.
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