A 12,000-hour captain’s “lack of practice or experience” in a de Havilland Canada DHC-6-300 Twin Otter floatplane – partly because of limited flying during the COVID-19 pandemic – was among the contributing factors to an Oct. 5, 2020, accident in the floatplane landing area at Velana International Airport in the Maldives, accident investigators say.
Accident/Incident Investigation, COVID-19, News
Unpracticed
Accident investigators cite downtime related to the COVID-19 pandemic as a contributor to a floatplane accident in the Maldives.