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.
The last I had read, the explosion that supposedly happened on TWA 800 could not be duplicated. Jet A, kerosene, and diesel not easy to make explode. Consider the temperature and pressure in a diesel engine if you want to get in the ball park. And the fuel/air ratio has to be within a certain range for that to occur.