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.

Loved ones gathered Wednesday to honor a Charlotte-based flight crew member killed in the deadly helicopter-plane crash over Washington, D.C. Hundreds of family, friends, and uniformed pilots and flight attendants on Wednesday,

Less than a week after the devastating midair collision in Washington, D.C., a Charlotte flight attendant’s vehicle sits idle at a west Charlotte parking lot. A memorial has grown on the car of Ian Epstein,

She was a friendly person with a beautiful smile with a passion for her family and flying, an old classmate said of the late flight attendant

Flight attendant Ian Epstein, one of the 67 victims of the D.C. plane crash, received a touching farewell at his home airport.

Video shows an American Airlines plane carrying the body of flight attendant Ian Epstein who died in January 29 midair collision near Washington’s Reagan National Airport, passing under a water cannon salute.