It may be sobering to look at the wider picture.
Between 8 May 1945 and 30 August 2009, the RAF lost, through flying accidents and occasional enemy action, 9300 aircraft written off and there were in excess of 6000 fatal casualties resulting. Included in this last number are the (mostly) RAF pax in a trooping York, which crashed in Malta, and the parachutists - British and Italian - lost in a Hastings and a Hercules. It also includes the occasional casualty on the ground. The figures do not include military and dependents lost in another trooping accident over the Atlantic, nor generally does it include casualties in Korea. Until 1957, most Army casualties and aircraft losses are included in the numbers I have quoted.
If one studies the accident rates, in 1945 the RAF was losing up to ten aircraft per day and on a single day in March 1946, for example, 10 Sqn lost three Dakotas with their crews and air despatchers. If one looks at the MOD and RAF Museum websites, there is a copy of the RAF Historical Society journal dealing with flight safety and one of the papers deals specifically with post-war losses.
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