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,

O’Hara, 28, of Lilburn, Ga., served as a Black Hawk repairer in the Army from July 2014 until his death. He was the crew chief onboard the aircraft Wednesday night when the crash happened. He deployed to Afghanistan from March 2017 to August 2017.

One of the soldiers who died in last week’s helicopter-airplane crash in Washington, D.C. was from North Carolina, officials confirmed over the weekend. On Saturday, Feb. 1, the U.S. Army said that Capt.