Calling it “an unattended death” aboard the flight, Massachusetts State Police said someone called the Crime Scene Services Section about the death.

Massachusetts State Police are investigating an unattended death on an Air France flight from Paris to Boston.

A passenger who died on board an Air France plane to Boston from Paris likely experienced a medical emergency, Massachusetts State Police said Wednesday.

According to the Massachusetts State Police, 53-year-old Barbara Dipoli of Topeka, Kansas, was a passenger on an Air France flight from Paris to Boston when she suffered a medical episode during the flight. The episode resulted in her untimely passing. The Office of the Chief Medical Examiner will determine the exact cause and manner of death.

Barbara Dipoli, a 53-year-old Iraq War veteran from Kansas, tragically passed away mid-flight on an Air France flight from Paris to Boston.

A passenger on an Air France flight from Paris to Boston died on Tuesday evening, the airline and police said.

A passenger on an Air France flight from Paris to Boston died mid-flight Tuesday night despite life-saving efforts made by a doctor on the plane, according to the airline.

Massachusetts State Police said the woman’s death appeared to result “from a medical episode during the flight”

A woman from Topeka, Kansas, died on an Air France flight from Paris to Boston on Tuesday (January 14). The Massachusetts State Police identified the woman as 53-year-old Barbara Dipolia and said that she was a member of the Kansas Air National Guard.