Safer in the back

I always suspected tha the rear of a plane was the safest place to sit in the event of a crash. Not sure why - maybe it was the intuition that the rear of the plane is the furthest away from the end that hits things, or maybe because it is also furthest away from the wings (which are usually filled with higly flammable fuel). Anyway, recently I came across this article from Popular Mechanics. They examined data from all 20 US plane crashes since 1971 and crunched the survival statistics. Check it out.