Mention has been made of the possibility of confusing the Meteor flap and airbrake levers, it is hard to see how this would has occured.
The flap lever was at the top left on the main front panel and worked in the conventional sense of up and down.
The airbrakes were on the left cockpit wall adjacent to the throttles well away from the flap lever, and operated on a slide with a fore and aft action, slide back to open and forward to close.
That aside, the stories of the horrendous assymetric foot loads are not exaggerated in the least.
At AFS I pushed the sole clean away from the heel on one pair of flying boots with the pressure on the instep.
On the flying accidents during this period I believe there is a book detailing all accidents in the 1950's which would confirm the numbers, but I have not seen a copy.