Fisher and wife still critical after helicopter crash
Northern Ireland rally driver Bertie Fisher and his wife are still critically ill in hospital after a helicopter crash in which their son and daughter were killed.
Mr Fisher's private helicopter went down a short distance from his home a few miles outside Enniskillen, Co Fermanagh.
Air accident investigators are trying to discover what went wrong and were due to resume their inqiuries today.
The helicopter crashed in a small copse of trees beside a country lane, causing extensive damage to the cockpit.
No mayday call was recorded prior to the tragedy.
RUC Superintendent Eddie Graham said: "Mr Fisher was an accomplished pilot and at this stage we don't know why the aircraft went down. It is a tragedy that two of his children were killed".
Mr Fisher and his wife Gladys, together with another son, were taken to the Erne Hospital in Enniskillen for treatment.
An army helicopter based in the town was scrambled to collect a medical team from the hospital and take them to the scene of the crash at Monea, five miles from Enniskillen on the road to Derrygonnelly.
It then made two trips to ferry the injured to hospital where Mr and Mrs Fisher are reported to be in critical conditions and their son's fiancee is stable.
A local GP pronounced Mr Fisher's son, Mark, 27 and daughter, Emma, 25, dead at the scene.
Northern Ireland Environment Minister and Fermanagh man Sam Foster, who knows the Fisher family, expressed his sadness. "The community is in deep shock," he said. "This was a well known family in the Fermanagh area and further afield".
