According to the first information, until the accident in which he was Baumgartner died came around 4:00 p.m. when he got sick in the air, as a result of which he lost control and crashed into the swimming pool of a resort, injuring a young woman.

He got sick in the flight, fell into the pool and died on the spot

According to the Italian media, Felix was in a paraglider when he suddenly fell ill during the flight. He lost control of the aircraft and fell directly into the hotel pool. During the impact, he also hit a girl, who suffered minor injuries and her life is not threatened.

According to official reports, Baumgartner was already dead at the moment of impact. The accident happened in the tourist resort of Porto Sant Elpidio, in the province of Fermo on the coast of the Adriatic Sea.

Felix Baumgartner became a global sensation on October 14, 2012, when he jumped from a balloon from a height of almost 39,000 meters above the Earth. During that historic jump from the stratosphere, he reached a speed of 1,357.6 km/h and broke the sound barrier — becoming the first man to do so in free fall.

Then he broke three world records:

That moment entered the history of skydiving and exploration of the limits of human possibilities. Although the height record was later broken by Alan Eustace in 2014, Felix's jump remains a symbol of human courage.

He attended as a five-year-old drawing of himself skydiving, which, he said, was the first sign that he would devote himself to extreme sports.

In the years after the feat, Felix lived in Switzerland, in Arbon, canton Thurgau, and continued to engage in flying, extreme sports and media projects. His death shocked the extreme sports community around the world.