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 0857 MDT, a Cessna 180 (N3389D) registered to and operated by Meil Del Rio Grande, Inc., Monte Vista, Colo., and a Cessna P210N (N731NX), registered to and operated by Mesa County, Grand Junction, Colo., collided in mid-air approximately 14 miles south of Grand Junction. N3389D was substantially damaged; N731NX sustained minor damage. The two occupants aboard N3389D and the four occupants aboard N731NX escaped injury. It was VFR at the time of the accident.
— At1518 MST, an Arizona Department of Public Safety (AZ DPS) paramedic was killed after coming into contact with the main rotor blades of a Bell 407, N42AZ, while performing a mountain rescue on Doe Mountain near Sedona, Ariz. The helicopter was operated by the AZ DPS as a public-use search and rescue (SAR) flight. The pilot and two hikers were not injured and the helicopter was not damaged. The flight had departed on the SAR mission from Flagstaff Pulliam Airport (FLG), Flagstaff, Ariz., at 1440, to aid in the search and rescue of two stranded hikers.
