Hollywood star Carrie Fisher was fighting for her life after suffering a massive heart attack on an airplane, according to media reports which
described her condition as "critical."
    
Celebrity website TMZ reported that the 60-year-old "Star Wars" actress was flying from London to Los Angeles yesterday when she suffered cardiac arrest, and was given cardiopulmonary resuscitation by an emergency services worker on board.
   
Fisher collapsed 15 minutes before the plane landed at LAX, TMZ said citing unnamed sources, and was rushed to a nearby hospital.
   
The Los Angeles Times said her condition was "critical," quoting an unnamed source who said the actress was "in a lot of distress on the flight."
   
The American actress has talked and written frequently about her years of drug addiction and mental illness.
   
She was catapulted to worldwide stardom as the rebel warrior Princess Leia in the original "Star Wars" trilogy, which has been a cultural phenomenon since the release of the films from 1977 to 1983.