A sobering table JB. I recall an FSO course in 1969 (approx) where we were told that Flight Safety related losses in WW2 far outnumbered those due to operations. The massive post WW2 loss rate, in particular on the Meteors, led directly to the founding of what became the complete RAF Flight Safety system, from incident to STI, on which we were being instructed. I see that your table stops at 2004, and many of the accidents and deaths with which this forum is sadly so familiar with excluded. I fear that a hard won lesson is having to be learned afresh.