Overview

• The trial centres on Wright’s alleged post-crash efforts to manipulate Hobbs-meter records and delete evidence after a February 2022 helicopter crash that killed Chris ‘Willow’ Wilson and paralysed Sebastian Robinson.
• Jurors heard Robinson recount Wright’s “hostile and abusive” phone call after a January 2022 storm forced pilots to abort a crocodile-egg collecting mission and seek shelter at a rural pub.
• Under defence questioning, Robinson admitted sourcing cocaine for friends and reimbursing expenses, conduct defence counsel characterised as drug trafficking.
• The pilot conceded he deleted messages and notes from his phone ahead of an ATSB interview, saying he was in a “real bad headspace” when investigators sought his device.
• Prosecutors emphasise the charges relate solely to alleged obstruction—supported by covert hospital recordings and documentary evidence—not to causing the crash itself.