You are wrong about the Starfighter!
Starfighters had a safety record as good as or better than most other planes of that era! ( Except for the West Germans who had training issues!) They were used by Spain, Italy and several others WO such horrendous crash rates! Nothing wrong with the plane, but much wrong with the user!
My boss at Boeing was a Zipper pilot and he loved the thing! You would not believe the stories he told, but on Party nights in Adona, out side Incerlik AFB, he would show his 8 mm "home movies"! You will not believe what they showed! A truly great aircraft!