The Austrian champion of extreme jump Felix Baumgartner died this Thursday, July 17 in Italy, said a head of the Marches firefighters, a region north of the peninsula. It was the riflemen who identified the champion at Sant’Elpidio, a locality of the steps, said this official, who was unable to specify the circumstances of his death.
The Italian newspaper The Republic, He evokes a deadly jump in paragliding at Porto Sant’ELpidio, near Fermo, on the east coast of the country.
On October 14, 2012, he had become at 43 the first man to cross the sound wall in free fall after rushing from a capsule hung on a helium ball of a record altitude of just over 39,000 meters in the sky of the New Mexico, an event followed by millions of people in the world.
Felix Baumgartner, whose performance was filmed, had crossed the sound wall after a few tens of seconds and had then been able to open his parachute after a total of 4’20 of free fall. He reached the speed of 1,341.9 kilometers per hour, or 1.24 times the speed of the sound, during a record fall.
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 of 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 m.