by Extremed sports pioneer Felix Baumgartner, who once broke the world record for the highest parachute jump by jumping from the edge of the room, died in a paragliding accident in Italy.
The 56-year-old Austrian fell to the ground near the swimming pool of a hotel after he was apparently overflowing about Porto Sant’elpidio in the Italy Central Marche region.
The mayor of Porto Sant’elpidios, Massimiliano Ciarpella, said he suggested that he had suffered a sudden medical problem in the middle of the air.
He offered the city’s condolences for the death of a “symbol of courage and passion for extreme flights”.
The Austrian made headlines worldwide in October 2012 when he jumped 24 miles above the earth with a specially produced suit from a balloon and was the first parachute jumper to broke the sound barrier, which was usually measured at more than 690 miles per hour.
He made the historic leap over Roswell, New Mexico, and reached a top speed of over 833 miles per hour on October 14, 1947 on the 65th anniversary of the legendary American pilot, Chuck Yeager.
“When I was there on the top of the world, they will be so modest that they no longer think about breaking records.
The self -proclaimed “God of Heaven” began as a teenager before the parachute incident before taking the extreme sport of the basic jump.
His long career of Daredevil Jumps included skydiving over the English Channel and the parachute jump from the Petronas turrets in Malaysia.
He carried out the first leap from the statue of Christ the Reddemer in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
In Austria, he was also known to recover controversy with views that included the expression support for dictatorship as a government system.
Baumgartner was finished with a fine of 1,500 euros after he had hit a Greek truck driver in the face in a conflict that broke out in a traffic jam near Salzbur.
The fans left tributes under one of the last social media posts by parachutists, a video of him that worked on the engine of his paraglider.
