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 1010 PDT, a Cessna Citation Mustang, N54PV, sustained substantial damage following the pilot's intentional ground loop maneuver during the landing roll on Runway 24 at McClellan-Palomar Airport in Carlsbad, Calif. The pilot (also president of California Natural Products, the operating company) reported to the investigators that on the morning of the accident he flew the airplane from Stockton, Calif., to Lincoln, Calif., to pick up passengers. He subsequently departed and was cleared to 35,000 feet as requested on his IFR flight plan.
*May 27-June 1: Berlin International Air Show (ILA2008), Berlin, Germany. Managed by Messe Berlin. (609) 987-1202. www.ila-NA.com *June 7: Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association 18th Annual AOPA Fly-In and Open House, Frederick, Md. (800) 872-2672 www.aopa.org *June 8-11: American Association of Airport Executives 80th Annual Conference and Expo, New Orleans. (703) 824-0500. www.aaae.org *June 9-11: Florida Aviation Trades Association 62nd Annual Meeting & Trade Show, Fort Lauderdale, Fla. (407) 383-8619.
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