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 2030 EST, a Cessna 414A (N62950) registered to ATA of Broward Corp. and operated by a private pilot as an FAR Part 91 flight, collided with trees during an instrument approach into Gwinnett County Airport-Briscoe Field (LZU), in Lawrenceville, Ga. The Atlanta Air Route Traffic Control Center reported that the pilot was given the current weather information before attempting his first instrument approach. The winds were calm, there was fog and the ceiling was 100 feet.
In early January, the NTSB reported that during the 12-day holiday period between Dec. 22, 2006 and Jan. 2, 2007, it dispatched regional air safety investigators to 12 fatal general aviation accidents. These accidents resulted in a total of 31 fatalities. Below are details on three of these accidents.
