Extreme athlete Felix Baumgartner, the first skydiver to fall faster than the speed of sound more than a decade ago, died in a crash Thursday along the eastern coast of Italy.

Skydiver Felix Baumgartner died this week at age 56 after a paragliding incident, when he reportedly crashed in Porto Sant'Elpidio, Italy

ROME, July 17 (Reuters) - Austrian extreme sports pioneer Felix Baumgartner, famed for a record-breaking 2012 skydive from the edge of space, died on Thursday in a paragliding accident in central Italy, local police said. He was 56.