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.
A Beech A200 (N11) had a landing gear malfunction resulting in a gear-up landing at Salt Lake City International Airport (SLC). The airplane was operating under 14 CFR Part 91. The two airline transport pilots were uninjured, however the airplane sustained substantial damage to the lower fuselage. The local instructional flight departed SLC about 1415. It was VFR and no flight plan had been filed. The pilot-in-command reported that after takeoff from SLC, and obtaining a positive rate of climb, he selected the gear-up handle.
Thrane & Thrane has an upgrade for its Aero-HSD+ cabin communications system that enables the use of Wi-Fi-enabled PDA devices and cell phones for inflight e-mail, Web browsing and SMS text messaging The company says the low-cost data solution introduces a universal interface, allowing use of all major 80211.b Wi-Fi-enabled cell phones and PDAs in any phase of flight or ground operation. The company says data costs are kept low because the system uses MPDS (Mobile Packet Data Service) instead of the ISDN channels, which are typically used for Web surfing.
At 1457 EST, a Socata TBM 700, N484RJ, was substantially damaged when it rolled inverted and collided with trees short of Runway 9, at Cobb County-McCollum Field (RYY), Kennesaw, Ga. It was VFR at the time of the accident, however and an IFR flight plan was filed for the flight from Southwest Georgia Regional Airport (ABY), Albany, Ga., to RYY. The airplane was registered to Flying Max LLC, and operated by the private pilot under 14 CFR Part 91. Witnesses at Cobb County Field stated that they saw the airplane on short final for Runway 9.
