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Names of pilots who crashed in same weekend in law firm name
Jeff Raasch
Feb. 3, 2010 9:49 am
Found this interesting: Both last names of the pilots who crashed on consecutive nights near The Eastern Iowa Airport last month are included in the name of a Cedar Rapids law firm.
On Jan. 16, a single-wing Cessna flown by Phillip Fisher, 48, of West Virginia, went down about a half-mile west of the airport. His brother, Gary Fisher, 58, and Gary's wife, Marcia Fisher, 57, of Monticello, were also on board.
The next night, a plane flown by Douglas Tindal, 64, of Washington, crashed about south of Wright Brothers Boulevard SW near the Kirkwood Boulevard intersection.
The law firm Nidney Wenzel Erdahl Tindal & Fisher is located at 425 Second St. SE in Cedar Rapids.
Does anyone else find that a little bit eerie? Fisher is a pretty common name, but to have both names part of a business in the same city where the plane crashes happened on the same weekend?
A woman who answered the phone at the law firm said none of the lawyers are related to either family.
All of the people involved in the plane crashes have been released from hospitals. They have declined our interview requests.
A single-engine fixed wing Cessna airplane rests Sunday, Jan. 17, 2010, in the field where it crashed a half mile west of Eastern Iowa Regional Airport at around 8 p.m. Saturday, injuring its three passengers. (Liz Martin/The Gazette)

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