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.

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

A Topeka woman died on Tuesday after taking a seven-hour flight from France to Boston's Logan International Airport.

State police are investigating after a Kansas woman died Tuesday evening aboard an Air France flight to Boston.

Javier C. Hernández and Benjamin Malapris joined the conductor Daniel Harding as he piloted an Air France flight from Rome to Paris. On a stormy day more than 34,000 feet above Paris, Air France Flight 1205 prepared to make its descent. Flight attendants began checking seat backs and tray tables, and passengers groggily emerged from naps.

A passenger on an Air France flight from Paris to Boston died on Tuesday evening, the airline and police said.The victim has been identified as 53-year-old Barbara Dipoli of Topeka, Kansas, Massachusetts State Police told NBC News on Thursday.

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.

A retired member of the Kansas Air National Guard hailing from Topeka died while on an international flight earlier this week.