TRAGIC FALL FROM SPACE

Soaring paraglider's disastrous final dive caught on camera

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Record-setting Felix Baumgartner crashed into a pool in Italy

DAREDEVIL Baumgartner Felix who successfully completed a 24-mile skydive from the edge of space in 2012 tragically perished in a motorized paragliding accident when he suddenly fell ill, lost control and fatally crashed into a hotel swimming pool in Italy, sources say.

The Austrian extreme sportsman, 56, died instantly in the freak mishap, and a facility employee was struck by the glider and brought to a hospital with neck injuries, according to reports.