RAF Casualites higher % died in training accidents?

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Higher % killed Flying accidents?
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['14-'18aviationcollector]

Hi,

I've heard that too but I thought it specifically referred to some of the more difficult - for novice pilots at least - aeroplanes to fly such as the Sopwith Camel. If the figures provided in the discussion you provided the link for are correct, maybe this was also true of other types of aeroplanes, particularly as the war progressed and the number of flying hours given to student pilots were drastically reduced. The hurried nature of training at this stage might have lead to an increase in fatalities during training. One fact is undeniable - there are a very high percentage of crash photos amongst the photos which are to be found of WW1 aeroplanes, and many of them, although I could not give an exact percentage, are obviously crashes which have occurred during training. Gerald Jensen - Muir, who compiled the photograph collection I eventually purchased, told me that he eventually gave up photographing aeroplane wrecks, simply because there were so many of them! In the collection, as it was finally compiled, one out of the twelve photograph albums is dedicated to crashes. Given the comment he made, the true number of crashes which were photographed was astronomical, and only a selection of crash photos made it to the collection as he eventually compiled it.