John Carta

Carta was a Base Jumping pioneer and a veteran of the Vietnam War, where he piloted Bell UH-1 Iroquois helicopters on rescue missions.

He parachuted onto the roof of the World Trade Center in New York in 1981; and launched himself from a tower of the Verrazano Bridge in 1982.

[7] He jumped from the Leaning Tower of Pisa, in Italy, and from George Washington Bridge in New York, in 1987, after he missed the World Trade Center and landed in a construction zone.

The charges were dismissed, and when he got his gear back he jumped from the George Washington Bridge.

[9][10] Carta was killed on September 29, 1990, when the Lockheed PV-2 Harpoon in which he was a passenger crashed during an impromptu aerobatics display.