Extreme sports athlete Felix Baumgartner tragically plunged to his death during a paragliding accident in Italy. His partner has shared what he was doing before the deadly flight

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.