Video: 4 men arrested after posting a YouTube video of base jump

Watch the viral video on YouTube and you might understand why the lure of the forbidden was too great for three BASE jumpers who leaped from the top of New York's highest tower at the World Trade Center site last fall.

The three men were arraigned on Monday, after leaping from the 105th floor of the 1,776-foot-tall (541 meters) tower on September 30.

After dropping through the early morning darkness toward the glittering city, one jumper—who filmed his descent with a helmet camera—landed safely on the West Side Highway, which was devoid of traffic.

At the time, surveillance video captured two of the men landing near the offices of the Goldman Sachs investment bank in Lower Manhattan. But it took months of investigation to identify the flyers.
The men were charged with reckless endangerment, burglary, and BASE jumping in the incident. The criminal complaint says the landing created a "substantial risk of serious physical injury" to pedestrians and drivers below.

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