HC Deb 26 June 1950 vol 476 c171W
Mr. Janner

asked the Minister of Supply how many test pilots and crews employed by his Department have been killed during tests in each of the years since the finish of the war.

Mr. G. R. Strauss

The following numbers of staff employed by my Department were killed in accidents to aircraft during tests of all kinds in the years shown:

1945 (from 1st July) … 12
1946 … 3
1947 … 2
1948 … 8
1949 … 5