Philemon:
I don't fully understand where you're coming from. Any airline can have a run of bad luck. Pan Am's safety record form the '60s to the '80s could be considered very dodgy by your standards - hell, they lost 341 in a single incident!
Lest we forget, in the case of one of the AF hull-losses everyone got off safely. Trying to compare the Dryden crash, presumably to point a finger at AF for allowing commercial pressures to override safety when in fact the incidents are nothing alike, just smacks of a desire to smear.