Witnesses of Felix Baumgartner's fatal paragliding crash heard a big boom when he turned to the ground

Porto Sant'elipido, Italy (AP) – beach visitors knew that something was wrong when they heard a loud boom ring when a paraglider got out of control, and killed his only inhabitant, the extreme athlete Felix Baumgartner, when it fell next to a swimming pool near the Adriatic Sea.

A 30-year-old mother observed how the fatal descent developed up close on Thursday afternoon with her two small children, who were enthusiastic about the constant traffic of paragliders over the beach town of Porto Sant'elipido in the Marche region of Italy.

“Everything was normal, then it started to turn like a top,” said Mirella Ivanov on Friday. “It went down and we heard a roar. In fact, I turned because I thought it fell on the rocks. Then I saw two lifeguards run, people who were approved for the crash site.

When she saw that people tried to revive the resident, she scurried away her two children.

The city's mayor confirmed the death of the 56-year-old Baumgartner, who was the first parachutist who was faster than the speed of sound. The cause of paragliding was examined. The police did not return calls in which a comment was asked.

“It is a fate that broke all types of records that broke an icon of the flight and who has traveled through space,” Mayor Massimiliano Ciarpella told The Associated Press.

Ciarpella said that Baumgartner was on vacation in the area and that the investigators believed that he could have become sick during the deadly flight.

In the last few days, the social media feed from Baumgartner offers videos of him, which is known as paramotoring with a motorized paraglider – over the coastal cities and take off from a nearby airfield surrounded by corn fields.

The Clube de Sole Le Mimose Beachid Resort, in which the accident took place, said in a statement that an employee who was “slightly injured” in the accident was in good condition. No guests were injured and the pool was reopened.

In 2012, Baumgartner, known as “Fearless Felix”, was the first person who only broke the sound barrier with his body. He wore a pressure under pressure and jumped out of a capsule that rose more than 24 miles (39 kilometers) above the earth with a huge helium balloon over New Mexico.

The Austrian, who was part of the Red Bull Stratos team, laid an increase in the speed of sound during a nine-minute descent at 843.6 miles per hour. At some point he went into a potentially dangerous flat spin while he was still overflowing and turned for 13 seconds, his crew later said.

The Altitude record from Baumgartner stood for two years until Google Executive Alan Eustace provided new markings for the highest free fall jump and the greatest free fall distance.

In 2012, millions of YouTube's Livestream observed when Baumgartner flashed cool with a thumb when he came out of the capsule over the earth and then activated his parachute when he approached the ground and after his landing ran his arms in victory.

Baumgartner, a former Austrian military parachutist, made thousands of jumps from aircraft, bridges, skyscrapers and famous sights, including the Christ's speech statue in Brazil.

In 2003 he flew over the English Channel in a carbon fiber wing after dropping out of an aircraft.

In recent years, he has performed with the Flying Bulls, an aviation team that has belonged to Red Bull and operated by Red Bull as a helicopter pilot in shows all over Europe.

Red Bull paid Baumgartner in a post -Friday and called him “precisely, demanding and critical. With others, but above all to himself”.

The explanation underlined research and the courage, with the Baumgartner “the biggest challenges”.

“No detail was too small, no risk too great because they could calculate it,” said Red Bull.