“It collapsed like a rocket between two pools.”

The 56 -year -old athlete died on Thursday, July 17, at Porto Sant'elpido after collapsing with a motorized paraglider.

The testimony of Giuseppe Frigerio: “That afternoon I wanted to participate in a Darts tournament”

“I was in Marche for a week of holiday. That afternoon I wanted to participate in a Darts tournament scheduled at 4 pm. I arrived a few minutes earlier at the event: at 15.55, a motorized paraglider started losing altitude and getting closer to the ground, until it collapsed.

I called the ambulance. I told the operator that the collapsed man seemed unconscious and breathed hard, and they immediately mobilized the ambulances and the helicopter.

I and a nurse from Milan, and her guest in the resort, released him from the motor backpack and began to alternate cardiac massage when he entered cardiac arrest. Then the first ambulance arrived, the paramedics continued the operations with the defibrillator, but they could do nothing. In the accident, an entertainer of the complex was also injured. Fortunately, he suffered only a superficial wound, but was still taken to the hospital. He was very scared, ”said Giuseppe Frigerio, according to News.ro.

Giuseppe Frigerio, an employee of the ambulance services and on vacation at that time, did not know that this was Felix Baumgartner and later found out from the local radio stations: “Only then did I understand that it was the man. On the radio he talked about a possible accident, this was what I saw,”

Felix was from 2014 in a relationship with the star Mihaela Rădulescu. They were together in the Italian region Marche, where they had arrived about a week ago.

The mayor of Fermo, Massimiliano Ciarpella, reacted to the death of Baumgartner: “Our community is deeply endured by the tragic loss of Felix Baumgartner, a world personality, a symbol of courage and passion for extreme flight.”