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.
Hawker Beechcraft Corp. is now offering the new Garmin FlightLevel Extended Warranty coverage as an aftermarket option for the G1000 avionics-equipped Beechcraft Baron G58 and Bonanza G36 aircraft. The extended warranty coverage offers complete system-wide maintenance protection for everything from cockpit displays to remote line replaceable units, and is designed to give owners comprehensive protection against unexpected product failures when their standard two-year factory warranty expires.
All eight persons aboard a Hawker 800 were killed about 1000 CDT when the crew apparently experienced control problems while attempting to land at Owatonna Airport, Minn. The airplane ran off the end of the 5,500-foot runway and crashed, resulting in massive destruction that left the tail and part of the empennage largely intact, but reducing the rest of the twin-engine aircraft to small pieces. A heavy line of rain and thunderstorms had passed through the Owatonna area, which is about 30 miles south of Minneapolis, not long before the Hawker (N818MV) reached the area.
A Boeing 747-200 freighter, operated by Kalitta Airlines as a wet lease to Centurion Airlines impacted terrain and was substantially damaged during a presumed forced landing about eight kilometers north of the El Dorado International Airport in Bogota, Columbia. A crew of eight survived the accident, some with serious injuries. Preliminary information indicated that the crew experienced some sort of aircraft problem during the initial departure from the airport. The investigation is being conducted by Unidad Administrativa Especial de Aeronautica Civil in Columbia.
