This article was mentioned in the AF447 thread. It is a load of bull - the fatal crashes are too rare an occurrence for the stats to have any statistical significance. What would be more informative is to calculate all safety related incidents of AF relative to the other airlines, but who has these stats? The regulator only probably as these rarely get reported in the media.
8 accidents out of 10 caused by human error is par for the course
AFAIK.