Grieving partner shares tragic final footage of daredevil Felix Baumgartner moments before fatal crash
The grieving partner of famed skydiver Felix Baumgartner shared tragic footage of the extreme athlete’s final flight — just moments before he crashed and died.
The 56-year-old — who was renowned as the first skydiver to fall faster than the speed of sound — died on Thursday in a paragliding accident in the Italian town of Porto Sant’Elpidio.
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The Austrian daredevil reportedly fell ill and lost consciousness while flying a motorized paraglider.
freefall across the English Channel between Dover and Calais, July 31,
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Video shared by Baumgartner’s longtime partner shows him preparing his parachute and starting the propeller of his paraglider before taking off into the cloudless summer sky.
“I was filming him taking off not knowing that this will be his last flight of his extraordinary life,” Miha Schwartzenberg, 55, who was with Baumgartner since 2014, wrote in a social media post accompanying the video.
“For over 12y I was there for every take off and landing, from skydiving, paragliding, helicopter flights, paramotor to aerobatic shows,” she wrote, adding that he was “going home now, up there, where he was the happiest ever.”
Baumgartner achieved global fame in 2012 when he successfully skydived 24 miles from the edge of space to the ground.
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