A female flight attendant was discovered dead with a cloth stuffed in her mouth at a hotel near an airport in Philadelphia.

Her body was found in a Marriott hotel room at 1 Arrival Road near Philadelphia International Airport around 10.45pm on Monday, two days after she was expected to check out.

The 66-year-old woman had ‘a cloth in her mouth’ when investigators found her, said Philadelphia Police Chief Inspector Scott Small.

Investigators told WPVI it was a sock in her mouth.

The woman was pronounced dead at the scene. Her identify has not been released and her cause of death has not been determined.

Officials have confirmed that the woman worked for American Airlines.

Police told KYW-TV that the woman is from Las Vegas.

Cops have ruled her death as suspicious and it is being investigated by the Homicide Detectives Division.

The woman appears to have suffered a ‘sudden death’ and she was ‘on several medications’, Small told NBC10. The hotel room did not show sings of forced entry and no weapons were recovered.

Bottles of prescription drugs that were sealed were discovered in the room, WPVI reported.

No arrests have been made in the case, according to Small.

It was not immediately known why hotel staff did not find the woman for two days after she was supposed to check out.

The Marriot hotel company has not commented on the incident.

Anyone with information on the death is urged to contact the Philadelphia Police Department.

It comes eight years after British Airways stewardess Emily Dunn was found dead in a hotel room in Angola while still suited up in her uniform. She was found after failing to show up for a flight to London’s Heathrow Airport, and it was later revealed that she was suspected to suffer from a heart condition.

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