By all accounts the Starfighter was a surprisingly reliable aircraft and statistically-speaking, it was much less "dangerous" than many other types. The A-7 for example, suffered many more accidents as did other types.
... I think we get spoiled by the reliability of aircraft these days. 'Twas not always thus, and not just with the fast and pointed (and nothing much was faster or pointier than the 104).
I was recently researching some civil air accident stats and was slightly surpised to discover that 144
Viscounts had been lost and/or written off ....... out of a production run of 445!