I think many of the Meteor fatalities were due to, firstly practicing asymmetric with one flamed out, no FADEC or any accel device save the left hand and a general lack of knowledge of gas turbine handling. Secondly, the phantom dive which occurred when any flap was lowered with the airbrakes (wing mounted) out. According to my log book, the last time this happened was on Aug 6 1988 at Coventry when a CFS vintage Meteor did a display and left his brakes out for most of it. I was scrambling into my Harvard to try and get the radio working when he turned downwind to land. The dive, when it occurred was sudden and mind numbingly dramatic. Thank God he missed the housing estate. This is probably the history behind the first item on the pre-landing check of all the fast jets I ever flew "airbrakes in".