Milan-Extremist athlete Felix Bumgartner, the first jump with umbrellas to fall faster than the speed of sound during a jump over 24 miles across the strategy more than a decade, in a crash on Thursday along the eastern coast of Italy, according to an official. It was 56.
Italian firefighters, who responded, said that the formulation of a thunderbolt was shattered on the side of a swimming pool in Porto Saint.
The mayor of the city, Massimiliano Carpella, confirmed the death of Bumgartner in a social media post.
The mayor said: “Our society is deeply affected by the tragic disappearance in Felix Bumgartner, a figure of global importance, and a symbol of courage and passion for the extremist trip.”
Bumgartner, known as “Fearless Felix”, surprised the world in 2012 when he became the first person to break the sound barrier with his body only. He was wearing a compact suit and jumped from a capsule that raised more than 24 miles (39 km) above the ground with a giant Helium balloon over New Mexico.
The Austrian, which was part of the Red Bull Stratos team, was exported in 843.6 miles per hour-the equivalent of 1.25 times the speed of sound-during the descent of nine minutes.
“When I was standing there at the head of the world, you become very modest, and don’t think about breaking the records anymore, you are not thinking about acquiring scientific data. The only thing you want is to return alive,” he said after landing in the Eastern New Mexico desert.
The height from which it jumped was the highest level ever for umbrella jumping, as the previous record in 1960 was achieved by Joe Kittenger, who worked as a consultant to Bogartner during his completion.
The height record in Baumgartner stopped for two years until Google Executive Alan Estace has put new signs of the highest free fall jump and the greater distance free of fall.
In 2012, millions saw the live broadcast on YouTube while Baumgartner was brilliantly walked in a thumb when he got out of the capsule high above the ground and then activated the umbrella when he approached the ground, raised his arms in victory after falling.
Bumgartner, a former Austrian military parasol, has made thousands of jumps from aircraft, bridges, skyscrapers, and famous landmarks around the world, including the statue of Christ in Brazil.
In 2003, he flew through the English channel in a carbon fiber wing after being shot down from a plane.
In recent years, he has performed with The Flying Bulls as a helicopter pilot in offers throughout Europe.
Bumgartner said after jumping in the 2012 record that traveling faster than the sound “is difficult to describe because you don’t feel it.”
“Sometimes we have to be really high to see how small we are,” he said.