A passenger died on board during an Air France flight from Paris to Boston on Tuesday despite life-saving efforts performed by a doctor on the plane.

Barbara Dipoli, 53, was a passenger on a flight from Paris-Charles de Gaulle to Boston Logan International Airport when she suffered a medical episode.

A Topeka woman died while on a flight from Paris, France, to Boston, Massachusetts. According to the Massachusetts State Police (MSP), troopers assigned to Troop F, Crime Scene Services Section, and the Suffolk County State Police Detective Unit responded to an unattended death aboard an Air France flight from Paris to Boston.

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.

The passenger who died on an AirFrance flight from Paris to Boston has been identified as Barbara DiPoli, 53, from Topeka, Kansas.