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 1204 UTC, a Piper PA-46T (N403HP) crashed in a wooded area during a visual approach into the Voslau Aerodrome (LOAV), Baden, Austria. The pilot and passenger were killed and the airplane was destroyed. VMC prevailed at the time of the accident. The pilot had cancelled his IFR clearance prior to entering the pattern at LOAV. The airplane was on an IFR flight plan from Shoreham-by-Sea Airport, Sussex, England, to LOAV.