Corsair
You speak the truth. About 450 fatals recorded in "Meteor Eject!" sounds horrific in today's Flight Safety - conscious environment. But, as a proprtion of a total Meteor build of about 3,500 airframes (of all marks) the number did not seem excessive in the immediate post-WW2 era. And of course the students were all more scared of being suspected of LMF than they were of the aircraft. I don't recall anyone being scrubbed for LMF. Winston Churchill, when he became PM again in 1951, got a bit rattled and wrote a rude note to the Air Minister. There was never any talk of grounding the fleet. and the urgency of the expansion programme during the Korean war presumably precluded any idea of withdrawing the F4s, which had no ejection seats, from service at the AFSs. I heard somewhere that the Glosters test pilots (notably "Zura") complained loudly about the T7's lack of bang-seats. Due to problems with the canopy release mechanism, a manual bale-out from the T7 was scarcely an option, and a forced landing was almost obligatory. But at night?????