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 Cessna 210, N968CC, was destroyed upon impact with terrain following a loss of control while in cruise flight near Baytown, Texas. The non-instrument-rated pilot was fatally injured. The 197-mile cross-country flight originated from Acadiana Regional Airport (ARA), New Iberia, La., with West Houston Airport, Houston, Texas, as its intended destination. A preliminary review of the airplane's radar track shows it approached from the east. At about 1830, the airplane initiated a descent from 6,500 feet.
A Eurocopter AS350B2, N911VA, registered to Harlingen Community Emergency Care Foundation, Inc., doing business as Valley Air Care, and operated by Metro Aviation, Inc. as an FAR Part 91 positioning flight, crashed into water while maneuvering for approach near South Padre Island, Texas. The flight was en route to pick up a patient at a temporary landing zone at South Padre Island. A review of recorded ATC radar data shows that the helicopter flew eastbound to its intended destination at altitudes ranging from 700 feet to 1,100 feet msl.
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