On Friday, British police named Lord Ballyedmond as one of the four people who died in the chopper crash in the English county of Norfolk.
The helicopter came down in thick fog at the village of Gillingham, near Beccles on Thursday evening. The aircraft was reportedly travelling to Northern Ireland, and it crashed near a stately home owned by the Conservative peer.
Lord Ballyedmond, known as Northern Ireland's richest man, was the chair of Norbrook, the largest privately owned pharmaceutical company in the world.
"The helicopter has been confirmed as a civilian aircraft and the four occupants on board are thought to have died in the crash. Next of kin will be informed before further details of a deceased are released," a Norfolk Police spokesperson said.
No further details on the identities of the other three victims are released yet.
Emergency services, called by members of the public, are still studying the cause of the crash. Investigators, however, say weather conditions in the area at the time of the accident could have been a factor.
Earlier in January, a similar crash nearby killed four US servicemen. This happened after a US military HH-60G Pave Hawk, based at RAF Lakenheath in Suffolk, crashed in a nature reserve in Cley-next-the-Sea in Norfolk, during a low level training exercise.
Moreover, in November last year, 10 people were killed when a police helicopter crashed into a pub roof on the banks of the River Clyde in central Glasgow, Scotland.
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