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Two tourists injured after airboat crash at celebrity croc wrangler Matt Wright's NT tourism business

Matt Wright's Top End Safari Camp is a popular tourism business in Bynoe, south-west of Darwin. (Supplied: Matt Wright)

Two tourists have been taken to hospital after an airboat crash at a Northern Territory tourism business owned by celebrity crocodile wrangler Matt Wright.

NT WorkSafe has confirmed 12 people were onboard the vehicle when it crashed at Mr Wright's Top End Safari Camp in Bynoe, about 46 kilometres south-west of Darwin, at about 11.15am on Wednesday. 

Two women, aged 43 and 54, were injured, with one suffering head injuries and the other receiving injuries to her lower leg.

The pair were transported to Royal Darwin Hospital by CareFlight and St John Ambulance, and were both in a stable condition on Wednesday afternoon. 

NT Police and NT WorkSafe attended the scene and are investigating. 

An NT WorkSafe spokesman said the business had notified it of the crash as required by the NT's workplace health and safety laws.

"NT WorkSafe Inspectors are currently at the incident site and have commenced an enquiry into the incident to determine the appropriate regulatory response," the spokesman said.

A spokesman for Top End Safari confirmed the incident in a statement.

"Earlier today there was an incident at Sweets Lagoon which resulted in two individuals requiring medical assistance," it said.

"We will be working with authorities to review the incident in due course.

"At the moment our focus is exclusively on supporting those passengers and staff involved."

This is not the first airboat crash in the Northern Territory involving a business owned by Mr Wright, who is the star of National Geographic's Outback Wrangler and Netflix's Wild Croc Territory.

In 2019, two people were injured after an airboat operated by his former business Outback Floatplane Adventures collided with a tree, in an incident that was investigated by the Australian Transport and Safety Bureau.

Mr Wright, along with two other men, is currently before the courts on charges related to a 2022 helicopter crash that killed his friend Chris 'Willow' Wilson and injured pilot Sebastian Robinson.

He is facing charges including attempting to pervert the course of justice, destruction of evidence, fabricating evidence and two counts of unlawful entry.

Mr Wright was not on board the helicopter at the time of the crash and has strenuously denied any wrongdoing.

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