Wendy Shaffer “was the heart of her family” with a “warm, loving home filled with laughter and care,” her friends said.

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.

QCN is not releasing the woman's name at this time. But we understand she is a wife and mother of two small children. She was returning from a business trip with a layover in D.C.