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.

Felix Baumgartner set multiple world records in 2012 during a fall that broke the sound barrier.

In 2012, Felix Baumgartner jumped from a capsule at an altitude of 39km, becoming the first person to break the sound barrier without a vehicle.

In 2023, Wetherspoons abandoned plans to erect a 43ft high sound barrier, dubbed “taller than the Berlin Wall” by one objector, after strong local opposition.