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Any casual perusal of Aircraft Accident databases will demonstrate that fatal accidents are no respecter of experience or flight time.
Why do companies want to hire pilots with a lot of experience? I did some casual perusing and searched "aircraft accidents by experience level". The first thing that popped up was this from the American Journal of Epidemiology. It's 19 years old but I'd say still relevant.
An excerpt:
"Flight experience, as measured by total flight time at baseline, showed a significant protective effect against the risk of crash involvement. With adjustment for age, pilots who had 5,000–9,999 hours of total flight time at baseline had a 57% lower risk of a crash than their less experienced counterparts (relative risk = 0.43, 95% confidence interval: 0.21, 0.87)."
https://academic.oup.com/aje/article/157/10/874/290156