Felix Baumgartner, the first person to fall faster than the speed of sound, died at 56 after crashing into a hotel swimming pool while paragliding in Italy.

Baumgartner’s career-defining achievement came in 2012 when he broke eight world records with his freefall jump from outer space.

Baumgartner is most well-known for breaking the sound barrier with his body during a freefall from the stratosphere in 2012.

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 hurtled to earth from more than 24 miles high in 2012 and became the first human to break the sound barrier while free-falling, died on Thursday in a paragliding accident along the Adriatic coast in Italy. He was 56.

Austrian skydiver Felix Baumgartner, who fell 127,852 feet from space during a 2012 stunt, has died in a paragliding accident. He was 56.