Felix Baumgartner, who jumped from fringe of house, dies paragliding

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<img sizes="(min-width: 1280px) 50vw, (min-width: 1008px) 66vw, 96vw" srcset="https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/240/cpsprodpb/f8a8/live/4cd15590-6356-11f0-a86d-c3f2092dd183.jpg.webp 240w,https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/320/cpsprodpb/f8a8/live/4cd15590-6356-11f0-a86d-c3f2092dd183.jpg.webp 320w,https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/480/cpsprodpb/f8a8/live/4cd15590-6356-11f0-a86d-c3f2092dd183.jpg.webp 480w,https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/640/cpsprodpb/f8a8/live/4cd15590-6356-11f0-a86d-c3f2092dd183.jpg.webp 640w,https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/800/cpsprodpb/f8a8/live/4cd15590-6356-11f0-a86d-c3f2092dd183.jpg.webp 800w,https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/1024/cpsprodpb/f8a8/live/4cd15590-6356-11f0-a86d-c3f2092dd183.jpg.webp 1024w,https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/1536/cpsprodpb/f8a8/live/4cd15590-6356-11f0-a86d-c3f2092dd183.jpg.webp 1536w" src="https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/480/cpsprodpb/f8a8/live/4cd15590-6356-11f0-a86d-c3f2092dd183.jpg.webp" loading="eager" alt="Getty Images Felix Baumgartner looks off to the side. He has blue eyes and short brown hair. He is wearing a leather jacket." class="sc-d1200759-0 dvfjxj"/> Getty Photos Felix Baumgartner, who as soon as broke the world report for the very best skydive by leaping from the sting of house, has died in a motorised paragliding accident in Italy.

The 56-year-old fell to the bottom close to the swimming pool of a lodge whereas flying over the village of Porto Sant'Elpidio within the jap Marche area.

Porto Sant'Elpidio's mayor, Massimiliano Ciarpella, mentioned stories advised he could have suffered a sudden medical subject mid-air.

The Austrian daredevil made headlines in 2012 when he broke the world report - and the sound barrier - for the highest-ever skydive, leaping from a balloon greater than 39km (128,000 ft) up within the stratosphere.

Watch: Felix Baumgartner leaps into the report books in 2012

Baumgartner was described as "an emblem of braveness and keenness for excessive flights", by Mayor Ciarpella who provided the city's condolences for his demise.

Followers have left their very own tributes beneath one of many skydiver's last social media posts, a video of him engaged on the motor of his paraglider.

One other put up from round 14:30 native time (13:30 BST) bore the textual content "an excessive amount of wind" and featured an image of a full windsock in opposition to a cloudy sky.

The acute sportsman was often called "Fearless Felix" for his adventurous stunts.

<img sizes="(min-width: 1280px) 50vw, (min-width: 1008px) 66vw, 96vw" srcset="https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/240/cpsprodpb/8264/live/bed892c0-6360-11f0-84ce-09fd5c61abfc.jpg.webp 240w,https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/320/cpsprodpb/8264/live/bed892c0-6360-11f0-84ce-09fd5c61abfc.jpg.webp 320w,https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/480/cpsprodpb/8264/live/bed892c0-6360-11f0-84ce-09fd5c61abfc.jpg.webp 480w,https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/640/cpsprodpb/8264/live/bed892c0-6360-11f0-84ce-09fd5c61abfc.jpg.webp 640w,https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/800/cpsprodpb/8264/live/bed892c0-6360-11f0-84ce-09fd5c61abfc.jpg.webp 800w,https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/1024/cpsprodpb/8264/live/bed892c0-6360-11f0-84ce-09fd5c61abfc.jpg.webp 1024w,https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/1536/cpsprodpb/8264/live/bed892c0-6360-11f0-84ce-09fd5c61abfc.jpg.webp 1536w" src="https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/480/cpsprodpb/8264/live/bed892c0-6360-11f0-84ce-09fd5c61abfc.jpg.webp" loading="lazy" alt="Reuters Baumgartner wears a jumpsuit and helmet emblazoned with Redbull logos. There are carbon-fibre wings on his back, protruding from a large carbon-fibre contraption on his back. " class="sc-d1200759-0 dvfjxj"/> Reuters Baumgartner flew throughout the Channel in 2003 with an oxygen tank strapped to his again and a parachute for the touchdown.

He set certainly one of his earliest information in 1999 for the world's lowest base bounce, from the 30m (98ft) excessive hand of Rio de Janeiro's Christ the Redeemer statue.

In the identical yr, he set the world report for the very best parachute bounce when he launched himself from the Petronas Towers in Kuala Lumpur in Malaysia.

Then in 2003, he accomplished a flight throughout the English Channel with a specially-made jumpsuit with carbon-fibre wings.

However the excessive sportsman was finest recognized for his house leap. Talking at a media convention after his record-breaking bounce, he mentioned "once I was standing there on high of the world, you grow to be so humble".

"You do not take into consideration breaking information anymore, you do not take into consideration gaining scientific knowledge - the one factor that you really want is to come back again alive."

<img sizes="(min-width: 1280px) 50vw, (min-width: 1008px) 66vw, 96vw" srcset="https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/240/cpsprodpb/5bc4/live/8d185e00-6360-11f0-8dbd-f3d32ebd3327.jpg.webp 240w,https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/320/cpsprodpb/5bc4/live/8d185e00-6360-11f0-8dbd-f3d32ebd3327.jpg.webp 320w,https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/480/cpsprodpb/5bc4/live/8d185e00-6360-11f0-8dbd-f3d32ebd3327.jpg.webp 480w,https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/640/cpsprodpb/5bc4/live/8d185e00-6360-11f0-8dbd-f3d32ebd3327.jpg.webp 640w,https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/800/cpsprodpb/5bc4/live/8d185e00-6360-11f0-8dbd-f3d32ebd3327.jpg.webp 800w,https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/1024/cpsprodpb/5bc4/live/8d185e00-6360-11f0-8dbd-f3d32ebd3327.jpg.webp 1024w,https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/1536/cpsprodpb/5bc4/live/8d185e00-6360-11f0-8dbd-f3d32ebd3327.jpg.webp 1536w" src="https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/480/cpsprodpb/5bc4/live/8d185e00-6360-11f0-8dbd-f3d32ebd3327.jpg.webp" loading="lazy" alt="Reuters Felix Baumgartner hangs from a parachute at the tip of the finger of the Christ the Redeemer statue in Rio de Janeiro." class="sc-d1200759-0 dvfjxj"/> Reuters Baumgartner positioned flowers on the shoulder of the Christ the Redeemer statue after the bounce in an indication of respect.