Thank you all.
Where can we read more about the intriguing history of planes like this?
Do suggest another type.
the DeHaviland Comet, which was fixed, but never outlived the early crashes
Actually ended up not such a dog, but it was unfortunate the early learning of pioneer jet travel was done in live service. But if you were a UK holidaymaker in the 1960s-70s, and just into the 1980s, you very likely went for your first ever jet flight on holiday to the Mediterranean in a Comet 4 (a substantial redesign compared to the originals) of the UK independent airline Dan-Air, who bought up all the secondhand ones they could.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Gatwick1976-mrh.jpg