Florida ? A 75-pound stingray killed a Michigan woman Thursday when it flew out of the water and struck her face as she rode in a boat with her parents and sister in the Florida Keys, officials said.

Judy Kay Zagorski, of Pigeon, Mich., was sitting in the front seat of a boat going 25 mph when the spotted eagle ray, with a wingspan of 5 to 6 feet, leaped out of the water, said Jorge Pino, spokesman for the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission.

The collision knocked Zagorski backward onto the floor of the boat, Pino said.

The impact likely killed the woman, and she did not appear to have puncture wounds from the ray’s barb, Pino said. An autopsy is planned.

“It’s so unusual, so rare, so bizarre,” Pino said. “We see them jump out of the water all the time but have never seen them impact a human being or cause a death.

“She was just at the wrong place at the wrong time.”