<div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Reality TV star Matt Wright is waiting on a jury's verdicts after weeks in the dock accused of trying to pervert the course of justice after a chopper crash.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Matt Wright might soon learn his fate with the jury in the reality TV star's Supreme Court trial to resume deliberations.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Wright has pleaded not guilty to three charges of attempting to pervert the course of justice following a fatal helicopter crash.</span></div></div><div><div id="adspot-mobile-medium"></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><strong><span>READ MORE: </span></strong><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/national/porepunkah-shooting-national-gun-register-debate/cc7e23cf-f479-4630-ad3d-6a277a52459e"><strong><span>Call for 'change of approach' following horror Porepunkah shooting</span></strong></a><strong><span></span></strong></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>The February 2022 accident killed the </span><em><span>Outback Wrangler</span></em><span> star's best mate and co-star Chris "Willow" Wilson and left pilot Sebastian Robinson a paraplegic.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>The pair were on a crocodile-egg collecting mission in Arnhem Land in the Northern Territory, with Wilson slung on a line below the chopper to be dropped onto croc nests.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Wright is accused of lying to crash investigators about the amount of fuel in the machine, trying to get Robinson to falsify flying hours and asking a friend to "torch" the helicopter's maintenance release.</span></div></div><div><div class="OUTBRAIN" data-reactroot="" data-src="//www.9news.com.au/national/matt-wright-jury-deliberations/1723a3f2-df9e-42e3-a68d-bd0bed6f414f" data-widget-id="AR_5"></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Prosecutors allege Wright was worried crash investigators would learn his choppers' meters were regularly disconnected to extend flying hours beyond official thresholds and paperwork was falsified to match.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>The charges against him in Darwin's Supreme Court do not relate to the cause of the accident and the prosecution does not allege he was responsible for the crash, Wilson's death or Robinson's injuries.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><strong><span>READ MORE:</span></strong><span> </span><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/national/bob-katter-threatens-journalist-immigration-rallies/5ef3fbd1-976d-4b83-b178-e4e7b2414f8d" target="_blank"><strong><span>'I've punched blokes in the mouth': Katter threatens 9News journo</span></strong></a></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Crown prosecutor Jason Gullaci SC argued Wright was "terrified" he would face criminal charges over the crash so sought to cover up evidence of disconnected flying-hour meters and falsified paperwork.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Senior defence counsel David Edwardson KC rejected that motive and targeted Robinson, alleging he forgot to refuel the aircraft and that caused engine failure and the crash.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>He told the jury Robinson and his family lacked credibility and had colluded to deflect blame onto Wright to try to protect the injured pilot from a possible manslaughter charge.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Robinson and his family gave evidence Wright had visited the injured pilot in hospital and asked him to transfer flying hours from the crashed machine onto his own to cover up unrecorded hours.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>But Edwardson in his closing submissions, said Wright had visited Robinson out of concern for his welfare and to try to sort out his flight paperwork for his own helicopter which was weeks behind.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><strong><span>READ MORE:</span></strong><span> </span><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/national/porepunkah-shooting-updates-manhunt-for-accused-gunman-dezi-freeman-enters-third-day/c1ad8829-6fe9-4de8-aa8a-24f0a62dc1bd" target="_blank"><strong><span>The grim reality facing authorities in the hunt for accused cop killer</span></strong></a></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Gullaci argued Wright knew the crashed chopper's flying hours were a couple of hundred past the 2200-hour threshold at which the machine had to be retired or extensively overhauled at a cost of up to $500,000.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>The TV star wanted to hide the fiddling of flight hours so embarked on his cover-up actions, the prosecutor alleged.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Edwardson warned the jury it was "inherently dangerous" to rely on a covert recording of Wright allegedly asking an associate to "torch" a maintenance release for the crashed chopper.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>That was because the recordings were inaudible and incomprehensible, he said.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>The jury began deliberating on Thursday afternoon following Acting Justice Allan Blow's instructions.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/national/how-to-follow-9news-digital/29855bb1-ad3d-4c38-bc25-3cb52af1216f" target="_blank"><strong><em><span>DOWNLOAD THE 9NEWS APP</span></em></strong></a><strong><em><span>: Stay across all the latest in breaking news, sport, politics and the weather via our news app and get notifications sent straight to your smartphone. 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