As he reported, Corriere Della will be, Thursday, July 17, this Austrian world known for his extreme jumps died after having made a discomfort during a paragliding flight, in Italy.
His feat will remain forever engraved in memories. Felix Baumgartner, the first man in history to cross the sound wall in free fall, died Thursday July 17 at the age of 56 at the end of a paragliding flight in Italy. According to the Italian daily newspaper Il Corriere della will be, the champion would have lost control of his paraglider after a discomfort, and fell into the swimming pool of a vacation residence in Porto Sant’elpidio, slightly injuring a young woman. According to the first observation, Felix Baumgartner was already dead at the time of the impact.
October 14, 2012, Felix Baumgartner had distinguished himself by making a 39,000 meter jump which allowed him, during his fall, to become the first man to cross the sound wall by reaching the maximum speed of 1,357.6 kilometers per hour. During his descent, the Austrian adventurer had also broken two other world records: that of the highest altitude reached by a man in balloon, and the record for the highest leap in free fall, detained since 1960 by a former colonel of the American Air Force, Joe Kittinger, who had jumped by 31,333 meters.
A rain of tributes on social networks
Born in Salzburg in 1969, this Austrian paratrooper had made himself known to the general public by jumping from skyscrapers or cliffs. On Saturday July 12, he shared on his Facebook account, followed by more than a million people, a photo of him flying over the sea, indicating that he is on vacation in Italy. Many tributes were paid to him by Internet users on social networks.
Posted on July 18 at 10:00 am, Quentin Marchal, 6medias