Overview

• Robinson recounted severe injuries including a completely severed spinal cord, multiple bone fractures and traumatic brain damage that have left him a paraplegic with cognitive impairments.
• He testified that Helibrook employees routinely disconnected Hobbs flight-time meters to postpone 50-hour and 100-hour maintenance checks after Wright instructed pilots to “pop the clock”.
• Prosecutors played a covert August 2022 recording in which Wright acknowledged that “the Hobbs has been touched” following a meter disconnection.
• Earlier witness Jock Purcell admitted to more than ten instances of logging falsifications, unscrewing aircraft consoles to check meter connections and removing Robinson’s logbook days after the crash.
• Wright, who pleads not guilty to three counts of attempting to pervert the course of justice, maintains the charges focus solely on alleged evidence tampering rather than the cause of the 2022 crash that killed Chris Wilson.