The Austrian jumper base, 56 years old, disappeared while flying with the paragliding in the Marche. Calching in a swimming pool in Porto Sant’Elpidio, a girl also wounded
The man of impossible companies, this time, did not make it. Felix Baumgartner died at 56, while attempting yet another challenge of his life all adrenaline. The Austrian jumper and paratrooper base fell into a swimming pool of a accommodation facility in Porto Sant’Elpidio, in the Marche, probably due to an illness during a paragliding launch. In the accident, a girl, who was injured but fortunately not in serious condition, also hit. According to what reported by The rest of the Carlino After the impact, the man would have immediately lost consciousness going into cardiac arrest. The rescue attempts, including the helicopter rescue that had been organized to transport him to the ‘Torrette’ hospital in Ancona, where Baumgartner never arrived: his heart had already ceased to beat.
the feat from the stratosphere
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Many companies created by Felix Baumgartner during his career: from the flight in free fall on the sleeve channel to the launch from the stratosphere, made in 2012, with which he broke several records. On that occasion, Baumgartner had launched himself from the height of over 24 miles (more than 39 kilometers), with an estimated speed in 833.9 miles per hour (1,342.8 kilometers per hour) during the 4 minutes and 22 seconds of free fall: it became the first man to break the speed of the sound (1,110 km/h) outside a vehicle. In the last week he was on vacation in the Marche with the family: in the last few hours he had posted several stories on Instagram in which he showed almost 200 thousand followers his latest flights with the paragliding, his great passion. So much so that the phrase “Born to Fly” had tattooed on the right forearm, that is “born to fly”. In the many interviews given after the company he had pronounced a phrase that remained in history: “I belong to the air, I was born for these emotions”.
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