Outback Wrangler star and aviation company face charges over fatal chopper crash

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Outback Wrangler star Matt Wright and his aviation company have been hit with charges over a fatal chopper crash that killed his co-star. The NT’s workplace safety watchdog charged them with reckless conduct for operating unsafe aircraft.

Outback Wrangler star Matt Wright and his aviation company have been hit with a slew of new charges over a fatal chopper crash that killed his co-star. Chris Wilson plunged to his death in a remote area of the Northern Territory in February 2022 while attached to a helicopter owned by Wright and being flown by pilot Sebastian Robinson. Robinson survived, but was critically injured in the crash.

The NT’s workplace safety watchdog charged the celebrity croc-wrangler and his aviation company Helibrook with “reckless conduct for operating unsafe aircraft” on Thursday. The watchdog said while a police investigation is yet to determine the cause of the crash, it found “sufficient evidence” that Wright made up the number of flight hours his aircraft had done, and put his passengers and pilots at risk. “He engaged in conduct intended to falsify the actual number of flight hours accrued by the aircraft in the Helibrook fleet over an extended period of time,” NT WorkSafe said in a statement. “This .

 

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