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.
— At 1505 CST, a Hawker Beechcraft Model 390 Premier I (N20NL) sustained substantial damage after landing and departing the runway surface at the Sharpe Farms Airport in Lewistown, Mo. The two pilots and two passengers were not injured. The airplane was registered to CNS Corp. and operated by the pilot. An IFR flight plan was filed for the FAR Part 91 cross-country flight. The flight originated from Charles B. Wheeler Downtown Airport, Kansas City, Mo., with Lewistown as its intended destination.
— A Hughes 369A helicopter (N104BN) impacted ocean water and sank following a loss of control on takeoff from a fishing vessel in the Pacific Ocean’s Solomon Sea, about 350 miles west of Honiara, Solomon Islands. The pilot, a Philippine national, was not found and is presumed dead, and the passenger, a Chinese national, sustained serious injuries. The helicopter, which was registered to Oceanside Helicopters Inc. of Port Vila, Vanuatu, was not recovered and is presumed destroyed. It was VFR and no flight plan was filed.
The NBAA has given Sharon Forbes of DuPont Aviation the first Schedulers & Dispatchers Outstanding Achievement & Leadership Award. Created in 2008, this award recognizes individuals who have shared their outstanding business aviation industry expertise, provided extraordinary service, exhibited leadership and made significant contributions to the scheduling and dispatching function. Forbes is the supervisor of scheduling operations and facility manager of DuPont’s flight department headquartered in Wilmington, Del.
