A paraplegic pilot who survived a fatal chopper crash says reality television star Matt Wright visited him in hospital and asked him to manipulate flight records before deleting data from his phone.

Sebastian Robinson has told the jury in Mr Wright’s criminal trial that he was still heavily sedated, in “very bad shape” and “hallucinating” when the celebrity croc-wrangler visited him in hospital in March 2022.

Just days earlier – on February 28 – Mr Robinson was critically injured when the helicopter he was flying crashed during a crocodile egg collecting mission at West Arnhem Land. His friend and egg collector Chris Wilson, who had been slinging beneath the chopper, was killed.

The aircraft – a Robinson R44, registered VH-IDW – was owned and operated by Mr Wright’s since-liquidated com

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