Man who broke sound barrier while skydiving dies in paragliding accident
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In 2012, Felix Baumgartner jumped from a capsule at an altitude of 39km, becoming the first person to break the sound barrier without a vehicle. ROME: Austrian extreme sports pioneer Felix Baumgartner, famed for a record-breaking 2012 skydive from the edge of space, died on Thursday (Jul 17) in a paragliding accident in central Italy, local police said. He was 56. Baumgartner lost control of his motorised paraglider while flying over Porto Sant'Elpidio in Italy's central Marche region, and fell
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