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 Piper PA-23, registered to and operated by the Polk County Board of County Commissions and piloted by an ATP-certified pilot ,was destroyed when the airplane struck terrain while maneuvering near Fort Meade, Fla. Preliminary information indicates that the aircraft was being used for mosquito control. A witness said the airplane passed overhead at a low altitude. He heard the engines throttle back, then rev up and sputter. The airplane pitched up, rolled to the right, crashed into the ground and immediately caught fire. The pilot and passenger were fatally injured.
A Cirrus SR20 owned by East End Aviation LLC that departed Ogden, Utah, en route to Lincoln, Neb., was destroyed when it impacted terrain 50 nm northwest of Maybell, Colo. It was VFR at the time of the accident, but the flight was on an IFR flight plan. At 1320 hours at an altitude of 14,000 feet, the pilot reported to Denver ARTCC that the airplane was encountering icing conditions. He was assigned and descended to 11,000 feet, and was asked if he could maintain terrain and obstacle separation to which he acknowledged in the affirmative.
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