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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.