A30yoyo
Sorry but you can't compare tomatoes wiv bananas or whatever.
Would say that in my six years we destroyed eight aircraft two of which weren't pilot error.
Four of which were tridents.
And if you looked at Airtours with the hot shots they destroyed two out of ten 707s including a horrific idiotic training b@lls up at Prestwick and a crash in Crete where they loaded pax onto a broken aircraft after Olympic refused to sign the Tech log and flew back to Gatwick.
Both wings were bent and one pylon bolt sheared and the wings were leaking fuel.
We had a Very dodgy command training short field landing which went wrong when I was base training and a year later one of my many trainers bent another Trident at PWK.
look at bomber command statistics you will find an unbelievable number of training casualties.
If you read the thread about gaining a RAF brevet you will see that later on in the war a specialised advanced training unit was established.
young men were frightened of the Lancaster and for an old f@rt a Trident was in a whole different ball park.
AirFrance at this time would keep the older guys who couldn't cope with swept wing jets on prop aircraft - no disgrace and same salary.
But we also had many outstanding older guys who could throw the Trident around and were a pleasure to fly with and watch but there weren't that many in the training department.
One was our future queens grandad.