NSW man guilty of meat grinder bomb plot

A jury is continuing its deliberations at the trial of a Sydney man after finding his brother guilty of plotting to blow up an Etihad plane with a bomb hidden in a meat grinder.

A NSW Supreme Court jury on Wednesday found Khaled Khayat, 51, guilty of the charge which involved the Etihad bomb plot and another plan to carry out a lethal poisonous gas attack on people in a confined space.

Khayat had pleaded not guilty to conspiring - between mid-January and late-July 2017 - to prepare or plan a terrorist act.

The jury has not yet agreed on a verdict for his 34-year-old brother Mahmoud who also denied the charge.

Prosecutor Lincoln Crowley QC alleged the bomb was in a meat grinder to be put into the luggage of a passenger who was flying out of Sydney on the Etihad flight.

But the plan was said to have been abandoned because the baggage was found to be overweight.

The jury will continue its deliberations on Mahmoud Khayat on Thursday.