Extreme sports icon Felix Baumgartner has died following a paragliding accident on Thursday in the coastal town of Porto Sant’Elpidio on Italy’s Adriatic coast. The Austrian adventurer lost control of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Austrian daredevil Felix Baumgartner died on Thursday at age 56, crashing into the side of a hotel swimming pool while paragliding ...

Beachgoers knew something was wrong when they heard a loud boom ring out as a paraglider spun out of control, killing its only occupant, extreme athlete Felix Baumgartner, when it crashed next to a ...

Felix Baumgartner, known for his record-breaking skydive from the edge of space, has died in a paragliding accident aged 56. Baumgartner lost control of his motorised paraglider while flying over ...

Felix Baumgartner, the fearless extreme sportsman behind many legendary stunts, has died. He was 56. According to the Associated Press, Baumgartner died in a paragliding accident in Italy on Thursday.

Baumgartner was an Austrian skydiver, BASE jumper and overall daredevil. Known for multiple jumps such as from Petronas Towers in Malaysia and the Christ the Redeemer statue in Rio de Janeiro, ...

MILAN (AP) — Extreme athlete Felix Baumgartner, the first skydiver to fall faster than the speed of sound during a 24-mile leap through the stratosphere more than a decade ago, died in a crash ...