Originally Posted by
Danny42C
FED (#11451),
There is a Thread way back on this Forum about Meteor accident statistics in the '50-'51 period. They make sobering reading.
Danny.
A new thread has been created posting the Obit for AM Sir Peter Bairsto
which refers to the Meteor accidents.
As a boy he had dreamt of becoming a pilot. He volunteered to fly in 1944 as soon as he reached 18 and was one of those who braved a high accident rate among those pilots flying early jet fighter aircraft, such as the Gloster Meteor. “Places like [the training establishment at] Driffield were a Meteor bloodbath,” he noted. “At Worksop, where I instructed, we counted on one fatality a month . . . when 43 Squadron converted to the first Hunters we had six serious crashes, including fatalities, in the first six months.”
https://www.pprune.org/showthread.php?t=601757