I’d say that four losses (three of them involving fatalities and the other a serious, career-ending injury) in relation to the number of Hunters operational under CAA jurisdiction at any one time constitutes a statistically poor safety record.

How many Hunter losses have been proved to be due to pilot error, and how many to mechanical failure ?

How do these losses compare to those when it was flown by the RAF or FAA ?

(Not including the time when six were lost in one day)