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.

TOPEKA, Kan. (WIBW) - 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.

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.