Overview

• Wright has pleaded not guilty to three counts of attempting to pervert the course of justice, with the charges focused on alleged post‑crash obstruction rather than the cause of the accident.
• The Crown closed its evidence on Friday, and the trial is scheduled to resume on Tuesday in the Northern Territory Supreme Court.
• Jurors heard phone taps and home bugs from October to December 2022 in which Wright agreed the pilot had "thrown everyone under the bus" and said he touched the helicopter at the crash site.
• In a December 2022 intercept, Wright said he "didn't see any fuel" in the tank and that he acted to "protect Seb," comments the prosecution highlighted while noting investigators found the aircraft ran out of fuel.
• NT Police Det Sgt Timothy Gardiner testified he used AI-generated drafts to help transcribe recordings that he then verified from the audio, a process the defence challenged; witness Jai Tomlinson said he could not recall any request to destroy a maintenance release, as CASA’s Rolf Kidson testified he never received the original document.