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New information about the death of Felix Baumgartner
Felix Baumgartner, who became famous worldwide with his stratospheric jump in October 2012, has died at the age of 56. According to Italian media reports, the Austrian had a paragliding accident in Porto Sant’Elpidio, on the Adriatic coast. He fell into a hotel swimming pool, injuring a young woman, Der Standard reports.
According to APA, firefighters called to the scene confirmed that Baumgartner lost control of the paraglider, because he suddenly felt sick, and crashed into a hotel swimming pool. He died at the scene, rescue units said.
A few hours before the accident, Baumgartner posted a video on his Instagram account in which he was flying a powered paraglider. In his last Instagram story, Baumgartner posted a photo of an airfield and the caption: “Too much wind.” He had recently shared images on Facebook in which he was flying a powered paraglider from Fermo, on the Italian coast.
He fell with a paraglider into a hotel pool
In the fall, Felix Baumgartner hit a hotel employee, who was hospitalized with neck injuries. Der Standard writes that the Austrian’s partner, whose name Der Standard does not mention, was informed of the man’s death – Baumgartner was the boyfriend of Mihaela Rădulescu, with whom he had posted pictures on Instagram on Wednesday.
At the time of the accident, many people were near the pool, including children. According to rescue teams, the tragedy could have been much more serious. Baumgartner’s paraglider crashed into a wooden structure next to a pool. The Carabinieri, firefighters and the Red Cross of Porto Sant’Elpidio immediately intervened on the scene.
The area around the pool has been isolated. The Le Mimose holiday village, where the accident occurred, is located two kilometers from the center of Porto Sant’Elpidio and covers an area of 30,000 square meters.
Felix Baumgartner was born in Salzburg, Austria, and was a helicopter pilot among other things. In recent years, he has also attracted attention for his public political stances, criticizing the migration policies of Germany and Austria and stating that a “moderate dictatorship” is a better form of government than a democracy that “cannot achieve anything,” wrote APA, according to Der Standard.
Felix Baumgartner’s most famous stunt took place on October 14, 2012, when the Austrian skydiver jumped from the stratosphere, from an altitude of 38,969 meters, and became the first person to exceed the speed of sound in free fall. With that jump, he set no less than three world records – the highest height ever reached by a manned balloon, the highest free fall jump and the fastest speed reached by a human in free fall, of 1,357.6 km/h.
Source: hotnews.com
