890 Meteors lost - 444 fatalities - life was cheap in those days.
You didn't miss anything Jock the Hastings was an awful aeroplane. I did more PIC hours in Meteors (45) than I did on the Hastings (0) during my twenty month tour on 99! I escaped from the RHS when the first Britannias arrived as you needed 1000 hours PIC to become a co-pilot on the shiny new fleet.