MID-AIR TRAGEDY Tourist dies after collapsing on Virgin flight as crew desperately tried to save her in front of horrified passengers

 A TRAVELLER has died in a mid-air tragedy after she collapsed on a Virgin Australia flight.

Flight crew rushed to perform CPR in a desperate bid to save the woman with the plane given priority landing in Melbourne.

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A Virgin Australia passenger died in front of passengers

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The plane was given priority landing at Melbourne's Tullamarine Airport

She was taken off the aircraft with emergency services waiting on the tarmac but she couldn't be saved.

She collapsed on the flight about 9:30am Monday before the jet came in for landing at Tullamarine Airport about 10:15am.

Although the cause of death has not yet been revealed authorities are not treating the tragedy as suspicious.

The tragedy occurred on a Brisbane-Melbourne flight.A Virgin Australia spokesperson told News Corp Australia's NewsWire: “Virgin Australia can confirm a medical emergency on board flight VA308 travelling from Brisbane to Melbourne this morning."

Victoria Police are now preparing a report for the coroner to establish the circumstances surrounding the mid-flight horror.

The woman's identity remains unclear.

The travel tragedy comes two months after Brit granddad Geoff Kitchen died on a Singapore Airlines flight when it was hit by turbulenceThe long London-Singapore journey was only two hours from landing when "severe turbulence" rocked passengers with the plane descending 7,000ft in just six minutes.

Tragically, Geoff was only just starting a dream six-week trip with his wife LindaThe Gloucestershire couple had planned on visiting Singapore, Indonesia, Japan and Australia.

Shocked friends described him as a "really nice bloke".

It was revealed that Geoff had suffered heart problems in recent years and had stents inserted to widen his arteries.

In 2019, an Australian woman died on a Qantas flight from Los Angeles to Melbourne.

Two doctors were on board the flight and tried to save the woman but were sadly unsuccessful.

Aleisha Tracy, 33, died just hours into the long flight as she headed home from a holiday in the US.

Friends later said they had no idea how she died and that the traveller had no known medical conditions.

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Geoff Kitchen sadly died on board a flight just two months agoCredit: Rex

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Virgin Australia confirmed there was an "emergency