Jessica is Executive Editor of Business & Commercial Aviation magazine. She started as Editor of ShowNews Online, Aviation Week's on-site trade show daily published at the Paris Air Show, NBAA Annual Convention, Singapore Air Show and at other significant aerospace gatherings.
Jessica has worked in television production and management consulting. While not yet a licensed pilot, Ms. Salerno has received flight instruction and has soloed.
— About 0435 EST a Beech 36, N7472N, registered to TFB Aviation LLC and operated by an individual, crashed in an open field within a golfing community in Louisville, Ky., during an IFR flight from Chicago Midway International Airport (MDW to Bowman Field Airport (LOU), Louisville. It was IFR at the time of the accident and an IFR flight plan was filed for the personal flight. The airplane incurred substantial damage and the pilot was killed. Information obtained from family members and local authorities revealed that the pilot was on a return IFR flight from MDW.
— At approximately 1205 MST, a Piper PA-46-310P (N46SB) was destroyed when it collided with terrain following a loss of control during an instrument landing approach to the Yamp Valley Airport (HDN), Hayden, Colo. IMC prevailed at the time of the accident. The personal flight was being conducted under the provisions of Title 14 CFR Part 91, and an instrument flight plan had been filed. The private pilot and commercial pilot on board the airplane were fatally injured. The cross-country flight originated at Hutchison, Kansas (HUT) at 1013 CST, and was en route to HDN.
Bombardier Aerospace, Montreal, appointed Wassim Saheb as sales director for Bombardier Business Aircraft, responsible for all Learjet, Challenger and Global aircraft sales in the Middle East.
