A flight attendant who was killed in the midair collision last week near the nation’s capital was set to be remembered for his devotion to family and passion for travel.

"I hold him so close to my heart. Like the many beautiful souls involved in this tragedy, Ian’s life and legacy will be remembered."

The flight attendants of a passenger jet that collided with an Army helicopter near Ronald Reagan National Airport in Washington, D.C. Wednesday were based out of Charlotte, an Association of Flight Attendants spokesperson confirmed to Axios.

Ian Epstein, a flight attendant aboard the doomed American Airlines passenger plane that collided with the army Black Hawk helicopter, was granted a fitting salute at his home airport.

A flight attendant who was killed in the midair collision last week near the nation’s capital was remembered Wednesday for his devotion to family and passion for travel, as Ian Epstein’s family and others start to hold memorials for loved ones who were among the 67 victims in the deadliest U.

The body of a flight attendant who died in last week’s Washington, D.C. plane crash was returned to Charlotte on Monday night. Ian Epstein was one of 67 people who lost their lives when a passenger jet and Army Black Hawk helicopter collided above the Potomac River near Reagan National Airport on Wednesday,

The 34-year-old was one of four Charlotte-based American Eagle flight 5342 crew members who died after the plane from Wichita, Kansas, collided with a military helicopter over Washington, D.C. A total of 67 people were killed in the crash.

Ian Epstein, a flight attendant who died last week in a mid-air collision between an American Airlines plane and a military helicopter, was honored at Charlotte Douglas International Airport Monday evening with a water cannon salute.