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April 3, 1999






NEW YORK (April 3, 1999 12:39 a.m. EST http://www.nandotimes.com) - A man trying to climb the 

Brooklyn Bridge as part of a stunt slipped from a cable and fell 500 feet to his death Friday.

 

Robert Landetta, 27, of Brooklyn, had scaled two-thirds of the bridge before he fell onto a 

street below. He was pronounced dead at the scene. 



Police said Landetta told a photographer on the bridge that he was aiming to set a world 

record by climbing five bridges in four hours. The Brooklyn Bridge was his first. Police 

have a videotape of the fall taken by a friend of Landetta's. 





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