According to local reports, Baumgartner was piloting a paramotor —an ultralight aircraft that uses a wing-like parachute—when he crashed into a hotel pool in the town of Porto Sant’Elpidio, 170 miles northeast of Rome. The impact injured a hotel employee, local reports said.

Emergency responders called for an air ambulance to take him to Torrette Hospital in Ancona, but he was pronounced dead at the scene.