Man Dies Trying to Set Record

Scaling Brooklyn Bridge

NandoTimes

Associated Press

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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