Four Base Jumpers Speak Out About Their Illegal Plunge From World Trade Center

‘We found a little hole in a fence—between a wall and a fence, and we just pushed it open, walked right in’

WATCH: BASE Jumpers Leap Off One World Trade Center (TIME)

Four thrill-seekers are charged with felony burglary, misdemeanor reckless endangerment and misdemeanor jumping from a structure after three of them parachuted from the Freedom Tower last September

Three men who are accused of parachuting from the top of One World Trade Center in September turned themselves in to authorities Monday, and released a video of their death-defying leap from the tallest building in the western hemisphere.

The video of the stunt was shot by a helmet camera and shows one of the men plummeting from the 1,776-ft building before pulling the rip cord, then landing on a nearly empty street in lower Manhattan:

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