It's not quite like that.
Norman Tebbit was a Meteor pilot and was injured in an accident in same.
As to the expendable fighter pilot bit, Churchill asked about the heavy rate of accidents and was assured in a response from a civil servant that the rate was not something to be concerned about.
Evidence suggests that there were more accidents practising asymmetrics than happened for real. Then of course there's the spiral dive - but that's another story.
O-D