The grieving accomplice of famed skydiver Felix Baumgartner shared tragic footage of the intense athlete’s last flight — simply moments earlier than he crashed and died.
The 56-year-old — who was famend as the primary skydiver to fall sooner than the velocity of sound — died on Thursday in a paragliding accident within the Italian city of Porto Sant’Elpidio.
The Austrian daredevil reportedly fell sick and misplaced consciousness whereas flying a motorized paraglider.
freefall throughout the English Channel between Dover and Calais, July 31,
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Video shared by Baumgartner’s longtime accomplice reveals him making ready his parachute and beginning the propeller of his paraglider earlier than taking off into the cloudless summer season 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 put up 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, including that he was “going home now, up there, where he was the happiest ever.”
Baumgartner achieved international fame in 2012 when he efficiently skydived 24 miles from the sting of area to the bottom.
