Bakseetblatherer,
Re the casualty figures and accidents.
If you care to go to the RAF Museum website and from there to the RAF Historical Society bit and thence to Journal 37, you will find the proceedings of a one day seminar on Flight Safety.
One of the papers deals with post-war accidents and you will find the figures are even worse than I quoted in my earlier post.
If you then really want to take the matter further, there is a five volume tome which lists 'um all and the crews & pax. However, I'm not allowed to write anymore about that on these pages: nod, nod, wink, wink!!
Old Duffer