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Originally Posted by Blackdog_kt
This design mentality continued throughout the war, with the Lancaster having one of the worst ratings for crew survivability in emergencies. The competing Halifax was much safer in the event of a crash landing or in-flight emergency.
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Got a source? Lancasters could land on just a single engine, and maintain altitude with just two.
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The Mosquito was almost untouchable (unless bounced by single engined fighters that had an altitude advantage) it only carried 2-3 crewmen, was cheaper to built, had a range to reach Berlin, could carry as much as a B-17 and a lot of them had the ability to carry out pin-point strikes against vital targets.
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B-17s could carry something like 18000 lbs of bombs. IIRC the Mosquito carried less than a quarter of that.