Flight attendant dies in mid-air after fatal heart attack during journey to Paris forces emergency landing

A FLIGHT attendant has tragically died after suffering a heart attack in mid-air during a flight to Paris. Yasser Saleh Al Yazidi became ill during the flight heading to Charles de Gaulle airport from Bahrain. AFPA flight attendant died during the flight heading to Paris[/caption] The pilots of the Gulf Air flight GF-19 were forced to make an emergency landing in Erbil in the Kurdistan region of Iraq. A medical team was waiting to attend to the crew member who was immediately transformed into a hospital but he was pronounced dead upon arrival. The director of the Erbil airport Ahmed Hoshyar told local media the plane was at 34,000 feet over Iraq when the man became ill.