YouTuber who staged plane crash faces up to 20 years jail

Re:YouTuber who staged plane crash faces up to 20 years jail by goda90 on Friday May 12, 2023 @08:53AM (#35915506)

If you intentionally light a building on fire with the potential to kill a bunch of people and destroy a bunch of property, how much lesser should the arson sentence be if someone puts the fire out quickly, preventing loss of life?

A plane crash can cause a wildfire.

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Re:YouTuber who staged plane crash faces up to 20 years jail by byyyy on Friday May 12, 2023 @10:59AM (#35917260)

No this is Hollywood making you think that. Car crashes and small plane crashes result in metal debris, not exploding balls of fire like Hollywood likes to depict.

In general the concept of starting a fire and a crashing small plane are orthogonal concepts. What happened with that plane is not arson at all.

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Re:YouTuber who staged plane crash faces up to 20 years jail by HeyLaughingBoy on Friday May 12, 2023 @12:16PM (#35918268)

You seem pretty hung up on this "exploding balls of fire" thing while ignoring that he's crashing a gas-powered vehicle, likely rupturing its fuel tanks and supply lines in close proximity to hot exhaust metal.

You don't need "exploding balls of fire" to create a disaster.

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Re:YouTuber who staged plane crash faces up to 20 years jail by byyyy on Friday May 12, 2023 @12:21PM (#35918324)

I'm hung up on it because it's true.

When's the last time you seen a car light up on fire during an accident? Never because the chances of it happening are basically negligible.

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Re:YouTuber who staged plane crash faces up to 20 years jail by HeyLaughingBoy on Friday May 12, 2023 @01:15PM (#35919040)

Early March, I think? Sometime this year, anyway.

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Re:YouTuber who staged plane crash faces up to 20 years jail by byyyy on Friday May 12, 2023 @01:43PM (#35919467)

Ok, but you get my point. It's rare. Most people haven't seen this ever.

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Re:YouTuber who staged plane crash faces up to 20 years jail by vdqtp3 on Friday May 12, 2023 @01:33PM (#35919304)

Cars don't have wings full of fuel and are built to crash, not built for minimal weight

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Re:YouTuber who staged plane crash faces up to 20 years jail by byyyy on Friday May 12, 2023 @01:43PM (#35919477)

The actual data says that post crash fires are rare.

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