Felix Baumgartner, extreme athlete, dies in paragliding crash in Italy | Sport News

The famous daredevil, known for his record-breaking jumps, lost control of his paraglider and crashed into a hotel pool.

Renowned extreme athlete Felix Baumgartner, most famous for jumping from a record 39 kilometres (24 miles) at the edge of space in the 2012 Red Bull Stratos project, has died in a paragliding accident in Italy on Thursday.

The 56-year-old Austrian crashed his paraglider in Porto Sant’Elpidio, situated on the Italian Adriatic coast, after losing control and plunged into a…

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News Source: www.aljazeera.com

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