Pilot, passenger survive crash, came here for Mexican chow

LIBERTY — What started out as two pilots wanting to taste some local Mexican cuisine ended in the private airplane they were flying crashing outside of Ravenna.

“We had a nice meal,” recalled 59-year-old airplane owner Robert Nietro of Hinckley in Medina County. He and his passenger, fellow pilot Brian McGreen, 31, of Parma, walked away from the crash Wednesday night.

Both were released from Robinson Memorial Hospital in Ravenna, where they were treated for cuts and bruises. Nietro, a real estate investor, said Thursday that he and McGreen had decided to fly his 1966 Alon Aircoupe to the Youngstown area for dinner.

Their destination was the Cancun Mexican Restaurant at the Quality Inn and Suites on Belmont Avenue here.

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