According to officials, Baungartner was paragliding in Porto Sant’Elpidio when he lost control of his motorized paraglider and crashed into the side of a hotel swimming pool. According to The Washington Post, the mayor's office believes that Baumgartner suffered a "medical issue" during the accident.

Felix Baumgartner, the Austrian extreme adventurer who made international headlines in 2012 when he livestreamed himself jumping and freefalling for four minutes from a helium balloon that had ascended about 24 miles above the earth,