Try lighting kerosene with a spark some time.
No thanks. I think that would be like trying to listen to a Yoko Ono album.
Matter of fact, that could have me exit the plane without a parachute.
A match into a bucket of jet fuel, kerosene or even diesel and the match will go out. (I always love watching this demonstraton to new recruits at the fire school.)
However, a match into a vapor of the same substances and it will go BOOM.
Agree, little fact that is know by very few. This is the primary reason I can't go with the 'official' line. Also, how is it that hundreds of witnesses were wrong and didn't see something go from surface to air?